Scalable Web Hosting for Seasonal Spike Hosting

Customer Scenario
eRetailer with seasonal revenue spike

Solution
On-demand computing resources 

Value
Scalability and high availability

Deploy Cloud Enterprise for additional compute resources for web, database and storage capacity - scale up and down as needed.

Industries

Financial Services Government Healthcare Media/Entertainment eCommerce SaaS Acceleration

Tap in to Cloud Enterprise for additional compute resources to your established Dedicated or CloudPrivate solution for web, database and storage capacity - scale up and down as needed.

Case Study

We host the eRetail infrastructure for a seasonal retailer that generates 95% of its revenues and leads via the internet.  On average they have 20,000 page views and 300 transactions a week on their site.  They also have a 3-month seasonal spike of visitors and transactions with an average of 90,000 pageviews a week and 3,000 transactions.

Hosting.com architected a CloudPrivate solution including 2 virtual firewalls, 2 virtual switches, 2 virtual web servers, 1 virtual database server, load balancing and shared storage.  The cost savings of this solution is approximately 33% versus a traditional, dedicated server solution while continuing to provide the necessary redundancy, high level of security and scalability features.

During the 3-month seasonal spike in visitors and transactions, a CloudEnterprise server(s) is connected to the customer's infrastructure for additional storage and compute resources.  By utilizing CloudEnterprise, additional servers are provisioned in less than a day, the solution scales in minutes and provides the customer significant cost savings compared to a dedicated server.

As technology and hosting budgets continue to be squeezed during the economic downturn, we are seeing a large number of clients leaving more traditional hosted solutions and moving to hybrid solutions.