Rackspace Cloud Hosting

Open Plus are committed to delivering top-line growth and system stability for our customers while helping to control or reduce cost base. Cloud hosting is an important tool in reducing costs and facilitating rapid scaling to meet seasonal peaks. For Open Plus, Cloud is one of the key elements at the heart of much of our infrastrucutre consultancy.

Contact us for more information, or see our Open-Source IT Solutions page.


Why Cloud Works for Online Retailers

Open Plus works with Rackspace and the latest cloud computing technologies to create a ‘pay as you go’ operating model. Cloud computing enables our clients to instantly expand computing resources for peak periods like Christmas shopping and e-mail marketing campaigns.

Correspondingly, our clients can instantly reduce computing resources during off-peak or normal trading periods to save costs. The flexible nature of Cloud computing also delivers reliability and scalability to our customers.

You don't have to pay for your maximum hosting requirements, like Christmas shopping, all year round because with Cloud hosting, space requirements are literally billed by the hour!

Open Plus and Rackspace

At Open Plus we work with Rackspace because they deliver an uncomparable service at a price point that makes them an ideal choice for most retailers. Their ability to get the service mix right can be seen in the company's incredible figures from 2010 which show a year-on-year growth rate of 26.7%.

Further Information

To explore the potential benefits of Rackspace Hosting to your business as part of an integrated consultancy service from Open Plus, or to find out more about consultancy we can offer, please contact us.

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