Leading dedicated hosting company, The Planet, plans to invest $3 million into new backup generators for its six world-class data centers

June 6, 2007 - The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced plans for a $3 million investment in new backup generators for its six world-class data centers. As part of its initial investment, The Planet has added two new high-performance Cummins generators to its Dallas data center portfolio for increased backup capacity and redundancy.

In the event of a utility failure, the Dallas data center can run for 3.5 days without refueling, and even longer if required with its fuel-delivery contracts. The new generators deliver unsurpassed reliability and will be installed across all of The Planet’s world-class data centers.

“In our business, the quality of our IT infrastructure sets the stage for how we support our customers’ businesses,” said Chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin. “Uptime is critical to business operations, and we understand the important role we play in maintaining the IT infrastructure backbone for our more than 22,000 customers. The Planet continues to make significant investments that support the more than 45,000 dedicated servers housed across six world-class data centers so that our customers have access to state-of-the-art facilities.”

For more information on The Planet’s data centers, please visit http://www.theplanet.com/why_the_planet/data_centers/.