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Kevin HazardAfter a long summer break, your favorite television shows are finally starting new seasons, and you are prepared: You have a 15-gallon bucket full of Kettle Corn ready for your prime time couch-potato enjoyment; you’ve made space on your Tivo by deleting old episodes since you’ve got them neatly stored on the last season’s DVDs you just bought; and you’ve set recurring calendar appointments to remind you of your “commitments” (Yes, we know that “Go to the gym” means “Call in an order at Domino’s and watch the pizza tracker like a hawk.”).

As your incessant withdrawal symptoms are approaching unbearable levels, I’ve got a treat for you that will temporarily satiate your desire for entertaining content: The Return of This Week* in Vending.

It’s been almost six months since you joined Christian and I on our taste-test of the vending machine chili cheese dogs, so your mouth is either watering for more or your stomach has finally settled … either way, you’ll enjoy this installment.

This week’s victim participant is Planet Northstar’s Development Manager Clayton Spivey, and he is forced gets to try a vending machine cheeseburger. Making a cameo in the episode: our first vending survivor, Todd Mitchell. (Editor’s Note: Make sure you watch Todd’s reaction when Clayton takes the burger out of the wrapper.)

When we finally get down to the meat of the interview (very punny, I know), you’ll have a chance to learn about Planet Northstar — The Planet’s Managed Hosting division — and the development work required to create systems to accommodate the division’s ambitious goals.

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For a bit more insight on Planet Alpha and Planet Northstar, check out the video below by Anastasia Tubanos of The WHIR and The Planet’s Director of Product Management Urvish Vashi.

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Today, we’re excited to announce a few big changes at The Planet!

Planet Northstar Managed Hosting

First, we’d like to tell you about Planet Northstar Managed Hosting, the first and only managed hosting service to leave behind the reactive support attitudes of the past and present a proactive vision of the future.

Planet Northstar Our goal with Planet Northstar Managed Hosting is to turn your current perception of reactive support in managed hosting on its head. By introducing you to the Anticipation Advantage — a visionary way to help you grow and leverage technology — that utilizes a proactive, best practices methodology for everything from architecting systems to change management, security by design, to reporting results and more. Executed by a designated team of certified and seasoned professionals who know your name and your business, you’ll always know who you’re working with because they are all personally accountable for your success.

Here’s what Mark Schmulen, co-founder of Nutshell Mail says about our new service: “Our Planet Northstar support team has been incredibly proactive managing our IT systems so we can focus on growing our business. I would recommend Planet Northstar to anyone looking for managed hosting services.”

Planet Alpha Dedicated Servers

Along with the introduction to our managed hosting division, we’ve been working so hard on our dedicated server business that it has become a new entity: Planet Alpha Dedicated Servers.

Planet NorthstarThere’s a powerful force behind the birth of our Planet Alpha Dedicated Servers division: it’s the power to choose. Your dedicated hosting provider fits the needs of your business model instead of the other way around, and we agree. You’ll see that Planet Alpha has added new Ready To Go server choices, Virtual Racks with Gigabit connectivity — and most important — a new set of “a’ la carte” Alpha Advanced Services for monitoring and security that you can use either solo or bundled in any combination.

See for yourself by visiting our transformed Web site and be sure to check out our new shopping cart, along with lots of new dedicated server specials.

Special Launch Promotions

We are celebrating this new era in IT hosting with a constellation of great offers, and it starts with a Big Bang of Savings. Try our new Alpha Advanced Services server monitoring for only $12.50 for your first month or add our server security module for only $20 for your first month. Save 25% off our latest dedicated servers. Get incredible deals on our Data Protection Servers (formerly “Dedicated Backup Servers”). Check out our Planet Alpha Server Specials to see how much you can save.

What About “The Planet”?

Keep in mind that our new stars — Planet Northstar and Planet Alpha — still orbit around The Planet, our corporate core of management and infrastructure that powers and sustains our success as a world leader in IT hosting. Our core infrastructure and processes have been designated as SAS 70 Type II certified: this includes in-depth studies in each of our six data centers, our network, provisioning systems, operations, physical and environmental security, and problem management through our customer portal. Visit the The Planet Corporate section of our Web site to learn more.

Join us on this unique journey through a new universe of IT hosting. Remember that you can contact us at any time through Live Chat on our Web site at www.theplanet.com or call us at 866-325-0045.

Welcome to the new world of IT hosting. It’s made possible by your input, your loyalty and your energy.

 
 

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