Hostirian, a web hosting provider, based in the Midwest, on Monday announced that Red Hat, a provider of Linux and open source technology, has granted Hostirian Hosting Partner status.

The newly granted partner status allows Hostirian to sell, install and maintain Red Hat licenses on dedicated servers for Hostirian's dedicated web hosting, colocation and managed server clients. Its clients are also afforded the ability to rent their Red Hat licenses through this program.

"We are very excited to be involved in this program," said Hostirian's Steve Szachta. "Our clients have been asking for flexibility like this for sometime now and we expect that new clients will appreciate the value proposition of deploying hardened, and fully supported Linux code with a license rental program."

All Red Hat solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS and Enterprise Linux enhancements such as Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Certificate System, Red Hat Application Server, Global File System and Cluster Suite are available to Hostirian customers on this low cost program.