The Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech has made available Plesk 9 on its Linux VPS hosting plans. The web host has recently announced the release of Plesk 9 on Dedicated Server plans.

The Sales Manager of Cirrus Tech Mani Aminian has told web hosting media that the company's VPS hosting customers use Virtual Private Servers to host their own customers and to act as Reseller web hosts. "With Plesk 9, there is a new reseller mode that allows Cirrus Tech clients to sign up their own customers and resell web hosting services to them", said Mr. Aminian.

Plesk 9 allows for a complete integration with APS Catalog and Plesk Billing. According to Cirrus Tech, with the integration of Plesk Billing to Plesk 9, VPS owners get complete reseller hosting solution on their VPS.

Cirrus Tech employ Virtuozzo Containers on VPS Hosting plans. The company offers on VPS Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, and openSUSE, on their Linux VPS plans. Plesk 9 is supported on all of the Linux distributions offered by Cirrus Tech.

The producer of virtualization and automation software Parallels, announced this week that it integrated Open-Xchange open source e-mail and collaboration software with its Operations Automation SaaS Module. According to the software producer, now its partners can deliver a cost-effective alternative to commercial e-mail and collaboration products at very competitive price.

Parallels packaged the Open-Xchange software in the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format. The producers of Virtuozzo Containers Os virtualization technology and Plesk hosting automation system also announced that the new solution is available to end-users via its partners - web hosting companies and Internet service providers.

The CEO of Parallels Serguei Beloussov told IT media that leveraging the Parallels Operations Automation SaaS Module enables APS compatible application companies like Open-Xchange to help service providers to grow profitability. "We are happy to see application vendors like Open-Xchange embrace the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format as they are a highlight to the growing list of over 200 applications that can seamlessly integrate their applications into Parallels Automation products", said Mr. Belousov.

Rafael Laguna the CEO of Open-Xchange said that the company's software is the only email and groupware solution, specifically designed for web hosting and SaaS providers.

Due to the open source nature, Open-Xchange can be easily integrated into different web hosting infrastructures. As a part of Parallels Automation SaaS Module web hosts and service providers can implement Open-Xchange without changing their authentication, user setup, system administration, and etc.

The VPS Hosting provider - Host Color said to VPSHostDir that it launched promotional campaign on its Virtuozzo Virtual Private Servers. The company offers 20% instant discount on all four VPS plans - VPS Start, VPS Advance, VPS Power, and VPS Custom.

Those who want to take advantage from the offering have to use promotional code VPSJAN2009. The campaign on VPS hosting expires January 31 2009.

"We are working hard to secure your success in 2009. In the year of virtualization we provide you with great Virtuozzo VPS hosting service at low price. We support you, not your website. Because web hosting is about people, not about websites",says the web host in its corporate statement.

The hosting provider has and interesting marketing model. It has recently announced it honors the King's birthday (Elvis Presley's birthday) with a free .US domain name and 25% instant rebate on Shared Hosting ( http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting ).

The company powers its VPS with Plesk 9.0 hosting control panel and uses the latest version of Virtuozzo Containers - Virtuozzo 4.0.