Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, announced the addition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, to its Planet Northstar Managed Hosting business line of offerings.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet noted, ''With our rigorous Anticipation Advantage best-practices methodology, Planet Northstar Managed Hosting becomes a proactive extension of your IT team. CIOs require proactive planning, preparation and prevention, which is precisely what Planet Northstar provides. Backed by a team of certified professionals, our enterprise-class network and SAS 70 Type II world-class data centers, customers gain access to infra

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Web hosting and solutions company, C I Host, has unveiled plans to open a new datacenter facility which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Dallas, Texas.

The new facility is being developed to maximize best practices from the company's 11 years in business, along with providing improved technology.

Erin Bullock, Executive Director of Business Development for C I Host remarked, ''C I Host is a pioneer in the Web hosting industry and we have the opportunity to use more than a decade of experiences to build a customer's ideal datacenter from the ground up - and then deliver it to them.''

The company continues to offer services for the same low prices. The new datacenter faciliti

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 3, 2008 - Hosting services provider, Rackspace, has awarded this year's winner of The Fanati honors, the company's outstanding customer service award, honoring the one customer that has best demonstrated excellent customer centricity.

Graham Weston, Chairman of Rackspace remarked, ''As the home of Fanatical Support, we wanted to know how our customers approach customer service in their respective industries. As a company whose mission is to become one of the world's greatest service companies and which is a two-time winner of the American Business Awards' 'Best Customer Service Organization,' we believe we are experts on customer service. Through the nomination process, we saw many of our own customers that

Flensburg, Germany - (The Hosting News) - October 29, 2008 - Hosting company, Servage, has deployed a new server Linux distribution, as a result of the cutting edge features developed by the company, for large scale clustered server systems.

Servage will upgrade its entire infrastructure to the new ServageOS. Servage expects to have completed the upgrade on all servers during November. The most noticeable feature in the new ServageOS is total process separation which provides an optimal hosting environment for each customer. Apart from the complete resource separation, the ServageOS also features full IPv6 support and improved central package management.

Jan Boysen, head of system administration and responsible for the de