Business Uses: Ecommerce

CLOUD ECOMMERCE

Cloud Servers and Cloud Files allow eCommerce retailers to upgrade their online capacity in minutes.

Handle peak sales periods with cost effective scaling.

With Rackspace Cloud Servers and Cloud Files, ecommerce companies can handle spikes in website traffic with ease, secure in the knowledge that capacity can be added or removed on demand, via the customer portal, or automatically via API. Whether your business has a busy hour, day, week or month, the on-demand model means you only have to pay for the capacity you need. This means that you can reduce your costs by scaling down your online infrastructure during quiet periods – since when you scale back your infrastructure, you also scale back your costs. Then when demand picks up, you can scale your cloud ecommerce solution – and grow your business. Rackspace Cloud Files also allows you to speed up delivery of images and media content (videos, documents, files etc) from your website, using the world-class Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Thanks to Rackspace Cloud Hosting we can now afford to run our 65k page, fully optimised website. This has been designed from the ground up to be fast and flexible and though still under intensive development and testing we are beginning to see some very encouraging results. We have the capability to offer multi currency, multi language sister sites and have used the immense flexibility of the cloud hosting package to run up new servers to test the code base on a staging server then simply destroy it afterwards.