“Rackspace Managed Hosting, a leading provider of managed
Internet hosting services, today announced the launch of its
holiday hosting package for customers needing Linux and NT server
clusters to support online sales during the holiday rush. The
offer enables e-businesses anticipating an increase in online
traffic during the holiday season to take advantage of increased
network services and extra capacity for their web sites for a
limited time period – and then scale back their servers after the
holidays, without charge.”
“Besides bringing increased profit and record sales, the holiday
period can also be a taxing time for e-businesses. Server overload,
downtime and loss of business were just a few of the problems
experienced by many e-commerce sites during the 1999 holiday
season. Systems struggled to cope with the increase in traffic and
visitors that overloaded sites causing frequent “Server
unavailable” errors.”
“Rackspace has bundled several of its network services into a
flexible holiday hosting package designed to benefit e-businesses
requiring increased bandwidth and server capacity during the
holiday period. Customers purchasing server clusters from Rackspace
before January 15, 2001 will benefit from reduced setup fees and
increased network services to improve their server performance
during peak times.”