Another week on the competitive VPS hosting market... Web hosting companies announced various promotions, new services and products in order to attract new customers.

KickAssVPS Offers Windows Server 2008 Powered VPS

The VPS hosting provider with strange name KickAssVPS has announced the deployment of deployed "the industry’s first publicly available Virtual Private Server powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5".

KickAssVPS.com offers Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as a part of a special beta program to its VPS customers using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5 virtualization software. The company is a Gold Partner or Parallels.

Host Color Came with 15% Instant VPS Hosting Rebate

Host Color said to web hosting media that it now offers registration of new COM, NET and ORG domains for $8.80/year. In addition to the low cost domain registration, the vps hosting provider is now running promotional campaign on its Linux Virtuozzo Virtual Private Servers. Until February 28th, anyone can sign up for VPS Start, VPS Advance, VPS Power or VPS custom with 15% instant discount.

NetHosted Launched VPS Hosting Plans

The UK web hosting company NetHosted launched VPS hosting services. The plans are available unmanaged or managed. the web host offers cPanel with WHM control panel with all VPS. The UK hosting company uses Parallels Virtuozzo as virtualization software.