(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With Valentines Day and Presidents Day but a memory, there were only a handful of sales and promo announcements complimenting a great deal of continuing promotions in the week ending February 2010, including SingleHop’s unlimited free SSL certificates to resellers, and Virpus Networks’ $7 per month VPS promotion.
SingleHop Announces Unlimited Free SSLs for Tandem Resellers
Potentially saving hosts hundreds of dollars every year, Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider SingleHop (www.singlehop.com) will be offering completely free, unlimited Globalsign (www.globalsign.com) SSL certificates, including wildcard SSLs, to participants in its new reseller program, Tandem. SingleHop says that SSL certificates have never been given away in this magnitude before.
Virpus Announces Permanent $7 per month VPS Promotion
Virtual private server provider Virpus Networks (www.virpus.com) has launched a $7 per month VPS promotion as a permanent plan for its un-managed VPS product line. Seven dollars provides a minimum of 512 MB of guaranteed RAM, many linux OS choices and 24/7 support with 30 minute average response times. Additionally, it has lowered its pricing on both its semi-managed and managed VPS product line, and offering a free control panel (either DirectAdmin or cPanel) to customers who prepay for their plans.
Codero’s Free cPanel Promotion
The latest promotion from dedicated hosting services provider Codero (www.codero.com) makes it easy for customers to try cPanel’s control panel. For a limited time, it is allowing customers to receive cPanel for free during the first three months on dedicated and managed hosting plans when they obtain a new cPanel license. This promotion lets users discover how the integration of cPanel’s control panel can make it easy to automate server tasks such as account setup, servers, alerts, spam monitoring and more.
Spiral Hosting Cuts Price of Irish .IE Domains
Irish web host Spiral Hosting (www.spiralhosting.com) is offering Irish domains for only €16.99 plus VAT, far cheaper than a direct registration with the .IE registry, which costs €62. This offer expires at the end of March. The company also offers a free domain name with all of its web hosting packages, whether it’s a .ie domain name or any one of 26 other top-level domain extensions including .com .net .eu and .co.uk.
Exabytes Continues February 2010 Promotion
Earlier this month, web host and domain registrar Exabytes Network (www.exabytes.com) launched its February 2010 promotion. Until February 28, the Malaysian company is offering a $100 one-time discount on its semi-dedicated server plan. Also, Exabytes is offering a 50 percent discount on all its shared hosting packages until the end of the month for its Twitter followers (twitter.com/exabytes_us).
Webhostuk’s Free Year of Hosting Promotion
Webhostuk Limited (www.webhost.uk.net) has announced a February promotion whereby customers can sign up to get 20 percent off Linux and Windows shared hosting plans. Those that sign up are entitled to a free year of hosting as well as added disk space and bandwidth, and a free domain or transfer. The special promo coupon code to redeem this offer is “promo20″
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