As an online retailer your business depends upon your site being continually live and available for your customers. You know that any downtime or security breaches will result in lost revenue and a significant impact on your market reputation. You also need to know that your eCommerce infrastructure has the bandwidth flexibility to meet seasonal peaks and troughs in traffic.

Rackspace has a range of hosting products that you could use for your ecommerce platform, see your options below:

Managed Hosting	Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware	Cloud Servers	Hybrid Hosting
What is it?	What is it?	What is it?	What is it?
Dedicated server(s) on dedicated infrastructure	Dedicated virtual servers on dedicated infrastructure	Virtual on demand servers on shared infrastructure	Combination of dedicated servers with Cloud
Type of website?	Type of website?	Type of website?	Type of website?
Steady web traffic levels with high security requirements on your ecommerce platform.	Variable/seasonal traffic with high peak demand on your ecommerce solution requiring security and compliance.	Ideal for testing your ecommerce platform or for sites in early development needing fast scalability. Not as stringent security needs	Variable/seasonal or high traffic loads with security and compliance requirements.
What's included?	What's included?	What's included?	What's included?
Managed services including: Monitoring, reporting, security, admin & device control, back up, storage etc. tailored to your own needs. Microsoft Windows or RedHat Linux Operating systems 100% network uptime guarantee & 1 hour hardware fix Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about managed hosting	Managed services including: Monitoring, reporting, security, admin, device control, back up, storage etc. tailored to your own needs. Microsoft Windows or RedHat Linux Operating Systems 100% network uptime guarantee & 1 hour hardware fix Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware	Cloud Tools Including: Web-based console access; Bootable rescue mode; Snapshot-based Cloud Server backups (available as an option). Authoritative DNS hosting and management. Full root access to your Linux distribution or Windows Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about cloud servers	Combination of: Managed Services, Cloud tools to suit your requirements. Microsoft Windows or RedHat Linux Operating Systems. 100% network uptime guarantee & 1 hour hardware fix Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about hybrid hosting

"With 20,000 travellers accessing their website each month to help find a bed for the night, Melbourne-based Lonely Planet needed a hosting solution that could perform optimally from anywhere in the world. Rackspace was the perfect hosting partner thanks to its global footprint."