Web hosting provider XO Communications  announced that it had made significant upgrades to the Web hosting packages offered by its Concentric hosting brand, providing increased bandwidth and disk space with more email addresses to customers of its Email Hosting, Starter and Clustered Hosting plans.

The company says concentric plans now offer more than double the disk space and up to 160 percent more bandwidth with more than twice as many email addresses.
Concentric's Email Plan now offers 500MB of storage with 10 email addresses. The Starter Plan provides 1GB of disk space, 5GB of bandwidth and 20 email addresses. The Basic Plan offers 2GB of storage, 40GB of bandwidth and 80 addresses. The Professional Plan includes 5GB of space, 75GB of Bandwidth and 200 emails. And the Enterprise Plan offers 10GB of space, 100GB of bandwidth and 500 addresses.

Along with the upgraded resources, the Basic, Professional and Enterprise plans now include a free one-year domain registration. XO is also providing private domain registration for customers who register domains through Concentric.

"We are committed to continuously improving our service and ensuring that we have competitive offerings for our customers," said Barbara Branaman, vice president and general manager of XO's hosting business unit. "Businesses know Concentric's reputation for reliability, security, and excellent customer support. With these new upgrades we are confident that small and medium sized business will recognize that Concentric continues to offer the best value in web hosting backed by service guarantees critical to operating a business online."