The National Science Fair

Christmas Stressing Out

Continum AG offers shop hosting with flexible adjustment of resources and consumption-dependent calculation of Freiburg, October 19, 2009 – a study of researchers Seneler, Babu, and DAIM from Portland State University according to Internet users accept less and less, slow build up websites. 55 percent say that she would accept a bad usability of the page rather than lengthy downloads by overloaded servers. This requirement represents a challenge according to the Freiburger continum AG especially for providers of online shops. In the face of the beginning soon Christmas business, the E-commerce companies should ensure that their technical resources in increasing demand or the seasonal visitors increase at your fingertips can be extended flexibly, avoiding economic disadvantages by customer and revenue losses. The continum AG therefore offers special hosting solutions as provider for Web shops that are tailored to the performance and flexibility required by E-commerce companies. Your advantage is that in case of need as such with unexpectedly strong rising Christmas business resources in seconds can be adapted the increasing demand. The usual temporal flow with the complicated ordering processes for additional hardware, such as CPU, RAM and disk eliminates it.

The possibilities of flexible capacity expansion at the hosting of Web stores resulting from the infrastructure of continum to virtual servers in a VMware environment. A load distribution across multiple physical servers into consideration can come for larger shops. Moreover, we take into account the flexibility needs of online shops by our consumption-based pricing”, emphasizes continum Board Rolf Mathis. This is ensures that full performance is at its peak and in the remaining time of the year, no unreasonably high costs are caused by oversized server hardware.” Such flexibility could still largely dominant classical performance models for hosting do not offer. According to our observations arises at the moment”a growing gap between the dynamic development in the E-Commerce demand, on the one hand and the technical performance resources of many shop provider, Mathis is problematized. He refers to the recent study of Web shopping 2009 “, according to purchase nearly all German Internet users electronically. The frequency of online shopping and the level of expenditure has risen significantly compared to last year. A further marked increase is expected in the coming holiday shopping season.

Who responds slowly or with inadequate technical hosting concepts loses may soon”his recently acquired position in the online market, the continum Board describes the consequences. About continum: Continum AG operates one of the most advanced Internet data centers in Germany in Freiburg i. br., Germany. The core competence is the secure and highly available operation and the individual support of Internet systems and applications. Since 1996, this is Companies use this expertise for commercial customers in Germany, the Switzerland and France successfully working. Agency think tank Pastorat Street 6, D-50354 Hurth Wilfried Heinrich Tel.: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-72 fax: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-71