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Fishie

join:2003-01-14
Riverside, CA

Site5 -> The Planet

I have two personal sites on Site5. One runs Drupal, another one runs Joomla. I also use Gallery2. I just received a letter from Site5 stating that they are going to use The Planet for their infrastructure. Does anyone have any experience with The Planet?
quote:
Dear XXX XXX,

My name is Todd Mitchell, I am Chief Operating Officer at Site5. We rarely send out company wide emails, so you can be sure that a very special announcement is necessitating this type of mass distribution! Today I have some remarkable news to share with you regarding Site5, your web hosting account(s) and a new partnership we've solidified over the last several months. We are proud to announce a new strategic partnership with The Planet (www.theplanet.com), a very well-respected infrastructure provider, which will soon be housing our server fleet and network in their state-of the-art, enterprise-level data center.

As I'm sure you're aware, Site5 is well known in the web hosting industry for a number of reasons:

- Site5 is innovative: Demonstrated in the research and development of Flashback, NetAdmin/SiteAdmin, Backstage and our stable web hosting platform.

- Site5 is transparent: Our weblog (»weblog.site5.com), forums (»forums.site5.com) and corporate web site (»www.site5.com) are prime examples of our transparent nature and operation. We are upfront and honest about everything we do at Site5. Clients are family.

- Site5 has award winning support: Whether you contact our billing, sales or support groups you are guaranteed a high level of customer service. We pride ourselves on our 24 x 7 in-house support group. Site5 does not outsource and that makes a difference.

We are building upon those core competencies by focusing our efforts on improving our server hardware, data center and network via this new business relationship. Throughout our continued growth we have added value to every aspect of our hosting platform without increasing prices to clients, and this announcement is certainly not an exception.

Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. (one of the largest and fastest growing web hosting providers in North America) and The Planet.com Internet Services, Inc. (the largest dedicated hosting / infrastructure provider in North America) have come together to form a mutually-beneficial partnership. We have selected The Planet to be Site5's sole data center, hardware and network provider after evaluating several other data center providers relative to our current hardware infrastructure. Following months of meetings, several on-site data center/ hardware evaluations, and a significant amount of consideration for our clients, we selected The Planet because they maintain a great support structure, the best hardware quality, and a shared desire to help Site5 provide the best hosting experience in the industry.

How will this affect you?

- Name brand servers: Our entire infrastructure will be migrated to enterprise level Dell servers custom made and tested specifically for Site5.

- Hardware upgrades: Every single server in our existing fleet will be upgraded to new hardware! We are standardizing our fleet on dual core Intel Xeon processors and large redundant and fast RAID arrays.

- Network upgrades: The Planet over the last several years has built out a substantial network. Rated #2 in North America, their network is resilient, reliable and redundant at all points. This network upgrade will ensure that your visitors and clients can access your web site(s) 24 x 7 without interruption and we will be able to guarantee that your pages will load exceptionally fast.

This new partnership is a substantial commitment for The Planet and Site5. Both companies employ exceptional people and this partnership is just a glimpse of great things to come from Site5 over the next 12 months. We are committed to keeping you informed and we will continue to send emails with pertinent information regarding this new partnership. Please keep an eye out for our emails and remember if you think you've missed an email, all notices and information will be reposted on our official forums - »forums.site5.com. The official press release regarding our new partnership will be released to financial analysts and news wire services on Tuesday April 3rd, 2007.

We hope this news is as exciting for you as it is for us. As we finalize the migration details for each server, we will post forum updates with all of the information you will need about your server's move and how/when your account will be upgraded. Thousands of people have been a part of the Site5 community for years, and we continue to see record growth, so we wanted to be sure that this move would help express our gratitude for your business.

Yours Truly,

Todd Mitchell on behalf of the entire Site5 team.


jDyno
Premium
join:2001-02-20
Washington, DC
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I have several sites/clients on Site5 as well, and would also love to hear what anyone happens to know about The Planet.
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON
reply to Fishie
The Planet rocks. I've got 10 boxes there currently. Zero problems so far and rock solid stability.
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fegul
Premium
join:2004-08-23
united state
reply to Fishie
They sound like they would be a good host to have. I've been getting tired of 1@1's e-mail server issues and they just seem slow in general (my PHP pages take a pretty long time to parse)

$5 a month doesnt seem too bad at all...


KoolMoe
Aw Man
Premium
join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD
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reply to Fishie
I had a shared server for a couple years with Rochen who hosts with The Planet. Generally very reliable and seemingly/fast resolution to any problems that did arise.
I've one colleague who has two dedicateds there and has no complaints.
Their webutation seems generally positive.
I would certainly look there should I ever need a dedicated server.
I think my only concern would be that they purchased EV1/RackShack last year, IIRC, and I know at least one fellow here who doesn't have a very high opinion of their services. Hopefully The Planet will bring EV1 up to their level and not sink to EV1's...
KM
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Rombus
Premium
join:2007-04-11
Columbus, OH
I use Site5 also and have been quite happy with them, hopefully the move to ThePlanet will only make things better
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