Q3 2024 — New Look for PlanetHoster’s Website!
In this third blog of 2024, we report on the roll-out of our new website and the latest advances in the development of our suite of tools. We also talk about our participation in various events in Canada and Europe. Finally, we give a sneak preview of the new functionalities that will soon be available to our customers.
PlanetHoster’s New Website
Things are changing fast these days. The approach to corporate website design is no exception.
In this context, it became clear that our website was no longer in line with today’s conventions, and that we had to take matters into our own hands: the project to design a new website was launched.
This in-house project took a long time to complete. We had to design a website that was not only modern, but also adapted to the needs of our customers. Hence the numerous team discussions until the final product met all the criteria. In particular, at a certain point in the project, we realized that our customers in each country have their own specific needs. It was therefore best to ensure that the website met these needs. That is why we decided to create four similar websites, but tailored to each nation:
- For French: planethoster.fr/en.
- For Swiss: planethoster.ch/en.
- For Canadians: planethoster.ca/en.
- For other countries: planethoster.com/en.
As an example, if your IP address is in France and you choose planethoster.fr/en, the currencies displayed on the site will be in euros.
Let us add here that our values have been put forward at the heart of the new design:
- Performance: ultra-fast solutions to power your projects.
- Innovation: cutting-edge technologies to stay ahead of the industry.
- Security and confidentiality: advanced protection for your data and your peace of mind.
- Eco-responsibility: a lasting commitment to reducing our energy footprint.
We invite you to take a look at the site corresponding to your country. You will appreciate the ease of navigation and the relevance of the information provided.
Always on the Cutting Edge
Whether it is domain management, shared hosting or dedicated hosting, PlanetHoster takes the lead! All these services and tools are always available at very attractive rates, sometimes even free of charge, and are just a few clicks away!
We invite you to take a look at the interview our CEO, Mr. Mina Shenouda, gave to HostingAdvice.com media on HybridCloud N0C.
Values, Mission and Value Proposition
PlanetHoster’s reputation stems from our values, our mission and our value proposition. In fact, here are the key elements:
- Security:
- data confidentiality (especially encrypted data and communications); and
- cyber defense.
- Performance:
- high availability (99.99%);
- triple replication erasure coding; and
- investment in low-energy technology (renewable energy).
- Top-of-the-range customer experience:
- easy-to-use interface; and
- 24/7 team with ongoing training and latest-generation tools.
Certified by the Green Web Foundation, PlanetHoster has a reputation for offering eco-friendly web hosting. This is a proof of our long-term vision for future generations.
PlanetHoster Promotions
In addition to the many benefits for our customers, PlanetHoster offers a wide range of promotions, which are clearly detailed on the website. Eventually, we will publish a blog to keep you up to date on our promotions.
Tarification
As of September 1, 2024, domain names are excluded from new orders. However, if you renew your hosting offers between now and January 31, 2025, you will have up to 9 years to keep the domain name free. After this date, the domain name will be invoiced.
What’s more, we offer dedicated HybridCloud N0C servers with no license fees! It is time to replace your cPanel server and take advantage of the technological benefits offered by this innovative solution. Moreover, you will save on the cost of cPanel licenses. So why wait? Switch now to a more powerful, optimized infrastructure, with greater flexibility and at no extra cost. As HybridCloud cPanel has reached the end of its life, please contact our sales team for a quote on HybridCloud N0C.
New Service Offerings for SMEs and Large Companies
The following table summarizes our service offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
| Service offer | Features |
|---|---|
| The World Pro | Best value for money in corporate-quality hosting |
| HybridCloud N0C | High performance Customized security High availability Managed |
| Domain names | Protect your brand Top-quality, high-value domain names Registry lock Brokerage and Escrow |
Here, we summarize upcoming service offerings for large corporations and government organizations:
| Service offer | Features |
|---|---|
| Private Cloud | Customized private cloud Very high availability On-premise, hybrid, multi-tenant solutions |
| Low-latency private and point-to-point networks | Low-latency encrypted network |
| Encrypted data storage | Military-grade encryption for your data |
| Cyber Defense | Advanced packet filtering Protection against DDoS attacks |
Infrastructure
PlanetHoster uses the same infrastructure as its customers. Let’s take a look at a few recent measures of particular interest.
Activating Our 100GE Port at TorIX
In September 2024, we activated our 100 gigabit ethernet (100 GE) port at the Toronto Internet Exchange (TorIX). This is great news, as it will enable our customers to access the Toronto (and GTA) networks much faster. The link between Montreal and Toronto using our Wavelenght fiber offers a latency of less than 7.2 ms.
TorIX is Canada’s leading Internet exchange point, and one of the largest in the world. Using TorIX enables reliable local traffic exchange with greater routing control and improved performance, at reduced costs. With over 250 organizations connected, TorIX peers have access to direct routes from numerous partners.
Prevention of DDoS or Attacks Attempting to Compromise Targeted Networks
Just recently, the Canadian Centre for Security relayed a bulletin advising that cyberthreat authors linked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had compromised Internet-connected devices by creating a botnet. Threat authors can use the botnet as a proxy to disguise their identities when conducting Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks or attempting to compromise the networks they target in the USA.
Armed with this information, exposed vendors, owners and operators are encouraged to update and secure their devices to prevent them from being compromised and added to this botnet.
As a preventive measure against problems of this kind, PlanetHoster continues to increase its network and anti-DDoS capacities. Several new 100 GE links have also been added.
Using Node.js Software Infrastructures on N0C
It can sometimes be useful to deploy a Node.js application on the N0C platform using a Javascript framework such as Nuxt.js, AngularJS, Express.js or Next.js.
So, in the event that you want to set up a Nuxt.js software infrastructure on N0C hosting effortlessly, you can refer to a guide written by Mr. Nicholas Bérubé, one of our developers. The guide is available at https://github.com/PlanetHoster/nuxt-demo. Nicholas has also produced a video describing the manual approach to N0C hosting, which is valid for the majority of software infrastructures; this video is available at this link: https://vimeo.com/1011383078.
Premium Disk Space on The World Web Hosting Platform
PlanetHoster has introduced premium disk space, the primary storage on The World web hosting platform, to offer customers better quality of service and improved management of their network of websites. In fact, The World is built on an N+N cloud architecture. It is a 100 % SSD/NVMe platform, and your data is replicated three times. This ensures performance, stability and integrity. In addition, recognizing that our customers have unique needs, we offer two options for disk space: Best-Efforts and Dedicated.
The Best-Efforts option is perfect for standard needs. Subject to precise usage rules (such as, among others, no authorization of massive storage), it features “unmetered” disk space that depends on the overall usage capacity of the infrastructure.
With storage capacities ranging from 20 GB to 1 TB, the Dedicated option is perfect for the most demanding needs. It offers 100 % dedicated disk space, and PlanetHoster gives you complete freedom of use. It also offers the same premium storage platform as our HybridCloud dedicated servers.
In our previous blogs, we indicated that our customers would eventually have an option to remove the 10 GB limitation on mailboxes. With the Dedicated option, this is now a reality!
Participation in International Events
In an ever-changing world, collaboration between organizations is vital, so PlanetHoster takes part in many international events. Here are just a few of them.
Events in France
NDDCamp
PlanetHoster supports NDDCamp, a series of conferences and workshops dedicated to key domain name topics. Indeed, these initiatives reflect our dedication not only to domain name registration, but also to contributing to the information and communication technology community.
As planned, we were present in Paris on September 13, 2024. We will also be there for the next edition in Strasbourg, on March 21, 2025.
JoomlaDay
As an annual event, JoomalDay is an opportunity for users in the French Joomla! community to meet, exchange ideas and discover the latest trends in web development and design.
This year, JoomalDay takes place on October 18 and 19 in Metz, France. We will be there!
Events in Belgium
FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a free event where software developers can meet, exchange ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of open source developers from all over the world gather in Brussels. An interesting feature of this event is that there is no need to register, as all you have to do is turn up and take part!
PlanetHoster will be present at FOSDEM 2025, just as we were in 2024.
Config Management Camp
Another Belgian event, this one in Ghent, caught our attention. It was the Config Management Camp, held this year from February 5 to 7, 2024.
This event is designed for technologists interested in open source infrastructure automation and related topics. This includes, among other things: open source configuration management, IT service allocation (provisioning), orchestration, choreography, container operations, and many other topics.
We will be keeping an eye out for the 2025 edition, which will take place from February 3 to 5.
Events in Canada
New Partnership with Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne
Always keen to give back to the community and foster innovation, PlanetHoster’s management team has decided to partner with Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne (Bois-de-Boulogne College) for the continuing education of students in the Stratégies et animations de réseaux sociaux (Social networking strategies and activities) program.
The agreement includes a $6,000 scholarship program over the next three years. It also leads to the creation of the PlanetHoster Innovation Lab within the College’s Agora numérique (digital agora) — a space dedicated to innovation and the development of advanced digital skills, which will enable the student community to benefit from mentoring and coaching activities offered by our experts. Moreover, the agreement includes access to PlanetHoster’s latest technological innovations, including the N0C platform.
For more details, please refer to their publication entitled Un nouveau partenariat pour l’Agora numérique : PlanetHoster.
Wordcamp Ottawa
From July 11 to 13, one of our developers took part in WordCamp Canada 2024.
On this occasion, he exchanged with experts and developers on site, and had the chance to contribute with the WordPress core team. He was also able to learn about the latest WordPress trends and best practices.
Hackfest
This year’s Hackfest annual conference takes place in Quebec City in October 2024. PlanetHoster is one of the sponsors.
Hackfest was created to raise public and corporate awareness of computer security prevention. Each year, a conference is organized for this purpose. Among other things, it is then possible to take part in capture the flag (CTF) competitions, where participants compete to solve cybersecurity puzzles and problems.
In addition to the annual conference, Hackfest offers a range of services for businesses, including CTFs, conferences and training courses. School conferences are even organized!
RDV e-commerce Conference
On October 22 at the ITHQ in Montreal, we will be pleased to support the RDV e-commerce conference, where our expert, Mrs. Violetta Potapova, will join Mr. Francis Coauts, Eng. PSP CISSP from ETS Formation, a recognized expert in information security. Together, they will discuss essential strategies for protecting virtual transactions by identifying and combating the often overlooked security blind spots.
This is a valuable opportunity to deepen your knowledge and strengthen the security of your online business. Do not miss it!
Forum InCyber Canada
The Forum InCyber Canada will take place from October 29 to 30 in Montreal.
The main objective of this event is to bring together a large number of cybersecurity players from all over the world, so that they can interact on the subject, sharing their achievements and building relationships based on mutual trust.
Confoo
ConFoo is a multi-technology conference for developers. Popular international speakers deliver presentations focused on pragmatic solutions for developers.
To make sure to not miss the 2025 edition, the dates of February 26 to 28 are marked on our calendars!
Forum In
On February 15, PlanetHoster took part in the Forum IN! organized by Laval Innov, focusing on the integration of artificial intelligence in business. Thanks to the Quebec Innovation Council for this panel.
Together with Hydro-Québec and Laval économique, PlanetHoster is a 3.0 partner of ForumIN!
The next event is scheduled for February 2025. We will be there, too!
Vision PDG
Vision PDG is organized by the Quebec Technology Association (Association québécoise des technologies). In the words of the organizers, the event is a unique North American summit exclusive to visionary CEOs who want to make their mark here and abroad. By participating, PlanetHoster joins the most influential leaders in Quebec’s technology industry.
The next edition will take place from April 8 to 10, 2025, at the Fairmont Mont Tremblant. The enchanting setting of the Laurentian Mountains, just north of Montreal, lends itself perfectly to the networking and exchange of views conducive to the blossoming of new ideas.
Donations and Support to CFP des riverains
The Centre de formation professionnelle des Riverains offers a variety of study programs, including computer support. PlanetHoster makes donations to support this professional training center.
To kick off the new school year, PlanetHoster took part in the Camp info-découverte. We had the chance to run an SEO workshop with some really talented young people, and it was a rewarding experience for all of us.
In fact, these students impressed us with the speed with which they mastered the basics of SEO in just two weeks. We are proud to support these future professionals from a generation passionate about the Web and technology, and to have collaborated with such an innovative establishment as CFP des Riverains.
Follow-Up on Current Web Hosting Projects
Following on from our previous blogs, here are some news about our many projects.
Strapi
It will soon be possible to install Strapi on your The World hosting with PlanetHoster.
Strapi is a headless CMS, which means you can create a customizable back-end application that generates an API for you. Then, you are free to use the framework of your choice and call on this API to display the content on your website.
As a prerequisite, you will need to have your Strapi project up and running locally. It is advisable to have a The World with at least the following resources: 4 CPU, 4 MEM and 8 MB/s IO.
Upgrade to VPN Version 2 (VPN V2) from PlanetHoster
PlanetHoster VPN will also be upgrading to version 2 very soon.
New Ideas
We would like to remind you that, aware that it is crucial to satisfy our customers whose needs are constantly changing, we encourage them to give their opinion and enter their ideas for new features via the https://features.planethoster.com link.
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The PlanetHoster Team
Talent Acquisition
As a hosting service provider and designer, we know that customer satisfaction depends on the competence of our staff. That is why we are always on the lookout for talented people to join our team.
Do not hesitate to send us your CV! Our featured positions are displayed on this page: https://www.planethoster.com/en/Carrieres.
Conclusion
We hope this blog has allowed you to share our enthusiasm for our recent and future achievements. To serve you better, we’ve put particular effort into the complete redesign of the PlanetHoster website (https://www.planethoster.com/en/).
The eventual addition of MemCached to the choices available in N0C and the addition of other SQL engines to the development schedule are examples of projects close to our hearts.