Flexible Capacity: What It Is

Seasonal or occasional spikes in traffic can have a huge impact on your site and to your business. That impact can be extremely positive—or negative—depending on how prepared your site is to respond to the increased traffic load. In a managed hosting environment, there used to be very little you could do to prepare your site for increased traffic—at least, without paying a lot of money to do so!

Now, thanks to INetU Managed Hosting's new Flexible Capacity service, you can add servers to your managed hosting environment in time to meet increased demand due to seasonality, promotions and other short-term events. Flexible Capacity servers are also great for development environments and staging environments so that you can test the impact of code changes before rolling them out to your live production servers.

Here's how Flexible Capacity works:

• Virtual Dedicated Servers: A Flexible Capacity server is a dedicated server, just like those in your production environment. These servers are provisioned on fault-tolerant branded hardware, and are built on top of cutting-edge Citrix XenServer virtualization technology.
• Pay-Per-Month: Only pay for the time you need extra servers in your environment. No annual contracts or obligations. Just the add the extra scalability and capacity you need when you need it, and remove it when you don't.
• Current Clients Only: Flexible Capacity servers are only built for INetU clients with an existing dedicated hardware environment. They can slot in easily behind most firewall and load balancer models, just as though they were physical hardware.

Why You Want It

Every business is different, but here are some cases where Flexible Capacity might be right for you.

• The Holiday Rush - Do you see a spike in traffic over the holiday months? It's not just e-Retailers who feel the crunch over the holidays. Because more people are online, traffic is up everywhere.
• Temporary Promotion: If your business is running a temporary promotion to drive traffic to your site, you risk biting off more than you can chew. Will your site stay online through the rush?
• Positive PR: When the press smiles on your organization, more people naturally come to your site more often. This is especially true when links to your page go viral. Even though this spike in traffic usually subsides in short order, scaling up your site to accommodate has long-term benefits.
• Development & Staging Environments: Build out the new code base for your site on a dedicated development environment and remove the Flexible Capacity servers when you don't need them anymore. Test that new code base out on dedicated staging servers, load test it and make sure everything works correctly before you put it live on your production environment.

Prices & Specs

There are three levels of Flexible Capacity servers you can add to your environment depending on your needs:

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