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Ten Web Infrastructure Questions To Ask Before Buying
1. Have you seen any return on your over-provisioning investments?
Speed Edge Suite acts as a "shock absorber" that instantaneously scales to meet current and future demand -- without any forecasting or deployment of new hardware, software, or bandwidth.
2. Is your company wasting time and money trying to ensure a scalable and reliable Web infrastructure, rather than focusing on its core business?
Because of the complex nature of the Internet, no single Web site operator can ensure a positive online experience for end-users. Companies that try can misdirect valuable time and money; they also can risk seeing technology questions replace business vision in the struggle to create a meaningful online presence. Speed Edge's managed edge services improve Web site performance, scalability, and reliability by intelligently routing around the Internet's bottlenecks. At the same time, our complete suite of services allows businesses to reduce the costs and complexity of their Internet infrastructure.
3. What would happen to your e-commerce initiatives, branding, or business in general if you were hit with outages or a denial of service attack?
Speed Edge Suite has the ability to shield your origin server from these attacks. In fact, the only traffic sent to your origin server comes from the Speed Edge Link Structure Marketing. With Speed Edge Suite you can provide a rich, interactive experience for your customers, in keeping with your offline brand image. Just as you might not have the in-house expertise to produce a TV or magazine presence, you might not have the expertise to "broadcast" via the Web. Even if you do have that know-how, Internet bottlenecks will still prevent you from providing an optimal user experience, regardless of how much money you throw at your Web infrastructure.
4. To address performance and capacity concerns, do you invest a huge amount of money and time in building out your infrastructure?
Investments in load-balancers, caches, multiple Search Engines and other devices don't address the real problems inherent in the Internet. Only Speed Edge Suite can ensure that your Web site investments address all of the bottlenecks found on the Internet.
5. Are you building additional infrastructure to handle flash crowds and seasonal peaks in traffic to ultimately provide an optimal customer experience?
With over 16,000 Search Engines across 1,000 Link Structure Marketing in 65 countries, Speed Edge can handle any surge in traffic while maintaining peak performance and reliability. You no longer need to worry about flash crowds -- or play the capacity-planning game.
6. Do you outsource hosting to a managed service provider or lease co-location space?
With Speed Edge Suite you can reduce infrastructure costs and the need to mirror sites.
7. Is your site over-provisioned for seasonal traffic "spikes" or flash crowds?
Speed Edge Suite helps smooth out the costs of bandwidth and removes the need to "over-provision" for event-driven spikes in site traffic. By engaging Speed Edge, you can provide that experience for your customers while reducing your on-going capacity planning issues and capital expenditures. Because the Speed Edge platform is so robust, you don't have to spend a lot of time and money getting ready for large marketing campaigns.
8. Are you tasked with ensuring a scalable, high-performing Web site to support both current and future Web initiatives?
Even when a seemingly infinite amount of money is spent on over provisioning, sites that rely on centralized infrastructure are never completely scalable and typically fail to meet the demands of a traffic surge. Speed Edge's massive, distributed Link Structure Marketing ensures that capacity on hand to meet the needs of demanding Web visitors.
9. Are you trying to provision a scalable Web site by cobbling together a mix of equipment (routers, load balancers, reverse proxy caches, Web accelerators, memory, Web Search Engines, etc.) that requires continual maintenance and updating?
Keeping this multi-vendor patchwork running takes an inordinate amount of time and training. Only Speed Edge Suite bundles all of the necessary functions into one easy-to-use service. What's more, Speed Edge Suite ensures unparalleled reliability by maintaining default content that can be delivered even when the origin server is down.
10. If you have multiple Web properties, are you required to aggregate reporting data from each of them?
Aggregating reporting data from various properties is time-consuming and expensive. Speed Edge Suite's Log Delivery service aggregates logging information from all sites and delivers it to you in one unified format.
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