ThePlanet.com Review

Based in Texas, The Planet has been and still a leader in dedicated hosting for the years and they are known to most web developers. Most companies looking for high demand and heavy traffic websites goes to The Planet highly customizable hosting. Their datacenter is based on 167,000 sq. ft. of raised floor with new 86,000 sq. ft. colocation data center launched in May 2009. 500 employees are currently employed by The Planet, most of them are engineers that has been the hosting industry for years and able to accommodate highly complicated and demanding requests in short notice. The main services of The Planet are Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Data Center Colocation.

Of course, the scalability and reliability of The Planet comes at a cost. However, they are a lot cheaper than their competitors if you know when to grab a bargain (hint: try bargain bin). Lately, they have been offering 10 TB of Bandwidth FREE as part of a hosting plan. We think that’s just hard to beat. We are yet to find a dedicated hosting provide that offers a reliable, reputable and scalable hosting for under $100 a month.

  • Number 1 dedicated server hosting provider in the world
  • Provides customers with the freedom to choose from the most flexible combination of hosting infrastructure and management services, including:

    • o Dedicated Servers
    o Managed Hosting

  • Data Center Colocation
  • Serving more than 20,000 businesses worldwide and more than 15.7 million Web sites
  • 44 percent of customers located outside of North America
  • More than 48,500 servers under management
  • Seven wholly owned and managed SAS 70 Type II certified data centers (2 in Houston, 5 in Dallas), in addition to our presence in London with data center

    • capabilities offering virtual rack solutions

  • More than 180,000 sq. ft. of raised floor data center space
  • Fully redundant Network Operations Center capabilities from two cities, 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring
  • One of the industry’s fastest, most robust networks: 250+ gigabits/sec of transit network capacity to 6 Tier 1 backbone networks
  • More than 500 employees


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