Increase of resources can be made automatically without manual intervention Warmetechnik calculation ensures a cost-optimal hosting Freiburg, January 28, 2009 – the Freiburger continum AG offers special hosting solutions that are tailored to the performance and flexibility required by E-commerce companies as provider and specialist for Web stores. They are characterized by the fact that the resources in increasing demand or for defined periods of time at your fingertips can be extended. Thus eliminates the usual time delay and the complicated ordering processes for additional hardware, such as CPU, RAM, and hard drives. The short-term extension of the services may in particular this flexible continum for the hosting of Web shops to provides virtualized server in a VMware environment. At the same time, a consumption-based pricing ensures that customers receive an economically favourable solution. Commerce developed very despite the general economic development dynamic”, continum Board refers to Rolf Mathis as an example the current results of operations Otto shipping, where online sales now has become the key engine of growth. This would lead to a continuously increasing server load.

Generally applies that through a special attractiveness of products in the Web shop, targeted marketing campaigns or other market influences the very short notice can demand. In these cases a flexible response is mandatory, on the resources page because the user always less likely to accept a bad performance and fast are looking for an alternative in the net.” Such requirements can be depicted flexibly due to the high-availability data center infrastructure to continum. This also applies to a seasonally dependent power demand by temporary increases in demand in the Web shop. The challenge lies in such cases is finding a hosting solution which at its peak that offers full performance and in the remaining period of the year no unreasonably high cost of oversized server hardware caused by”Mathis is problematized. With the classical performance portfolio hosting usually no satisfactory answer could be given out for the customers but continum flexibility solutions. He refers to a provider of costumes, which has its peak time in the Web shop for Carnival or Carnival in January and February, as well as in October for Halloween as an example.

Then he recorded up to fivefold increase of orders compared with the remaining time of the year. The resources for the customer increase therefore October automatically at the beginning of the year for two months and then again during the month by a factor of five. Then they will revert respectively without manual intervention on the output level. Recently medical billing sought to clarify these questions. The customer while paying only for the resources actually used, it receives a very tailored and also cost effective hosting solution”, Mathis explains the benefits. About continum: Continum AG operates in Freiburg i. br. is one of the most advanced Internet data centers in Germany. The core competence is the secure and highly available operation and the individual support of Internet systems and applications. Since 1996 the company use this expertise for commercial customers in Germany, the Switzerland and France operates successfully. Agency think tank Pastorat Street 6, D-50354 Hurth Wilfried Heinrich Tel.: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-72 fax: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-71