The Planet Announces Reseller Hosting Promotions

The Planet(www.theplanet.com), a privately held dedicated hosting company, announced a promotion to help resellers increase hosting revenues. The company states that beginning today and through March 31, customers who purchase five or more select servers will receive per-server discounts up to 68 percent.

It further states that resellers can use these bulk servers to provide an upgrade path for their larger customers who require a dedicated platform. The company adds that the additional servers can also accommodate an expanded infrastructure for resellers looking to provide shared or value-added offerings, including applications and custom services.

''In the competitive hosting landscape, resellers are tasked with offering their customers a wide range of options, coupled with the best value for their dollar,'' said Urvish Vashi, General Manager of dedicated hosting for The Planet. ''With this bulk-discount offering, resellers can move their customers to a dedicated environment cost effectively.''

HostGator Offers 4,500 Free Web Templates

HostGator, a shared hosting service provider offers 4,500 free website templates to customers and resellers. The templates cover nearly 120 different types of businesses and helps non-technical people to build websites.

The company claims that the free templates cover a broad range of page designs suitable for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses from accountants and auto dealers, to cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores, women's health clinics, and everything in between.

It further states that the wide variety of templates makes it easier for resellers to attract people and businesses who want websites, but don't have the knowledge or design abilities needed to create good looking Websites.

The company even states that a reseller or webmaster simply browses through the templates, selects one or more to use and they automatically begin downloading to their computer. And further affirms that hosting resellers and webmasters are also welcome to modify the templates, so long as their websites remain hosted by HostGator. As an added feature, resellers can mirror the templates pages to show to their customers. That can make accessing the templates easy, while maintaining control over who can accesss them.

Although it's common for web hosting companies to offer a variety of perks, including free or low cost web tools, and even a limited number of templates, Oxley says the number of free templates HostGator has is far beyond the average: "I really don't know of any other large hosting company offering this many templates. We may be setting the trend here."

"These templates are free to any Website hosted by HostGator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller," says HostGator founder and president Brent Oxley.

"We want to make hosting domains or building Websites as painless as possible, that's why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a Website, rather than use a template."

"The only restriction," says Oxley, "is that the templates can't be sold or distributed for use on Websites not hosted by us."

Private Nameserver Voice Tutorials from DemoWolf

DemoWolf.com, a flash tutorials company for web hosting industry, on Tuesday announced the release of a new series of Flash-based Voice/Audio tutorials for creating private nameservers at 15 domain name registrars.

According to the company, these Private Nameserver Voice tutorials are ideal for web hosting companies who allow customers to setup their own private nameservers, and wish to reduce the number of support calls asking for help on how to do just that.

When hosting companies purchase DemoWolf tutorials, they receive tutorials that are branded for their own company. The hosting company's logo is inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, and they also get their choice of custom text box colors to further brand the tutorials as their own. The new Private Nameservers Voice tutorials sell for $99.95 for the complete set of 15 tutorials. Each tutorial explains how to create private nameservers and covers a different domain registrar.