Open (flexible and scalable) for business.
For online stores, there’s no “after hours” for maintenance tasks, and shopping traffic can spike at any moment. When you build on SoftLayer, you’re always open for business.
Secure, scalable, global, and with customer support available by phone and chat 24x7, SoftLayer infrastructure lets you increase uptime, keep customer information secure, and scale when you need to.
Single Location
Single Location, Redundant
Global Redundant
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Benefits
- Cost Effective
- Simple setup/management
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- High Performance
- Web server redundancy
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Cloud Architecture
- Load balancer
- Database server
- Private network
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- Web servers
- Public network
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Configuration Details
- Increased resiliency and ability to handle significant customer traffic
- Easily maintained
- Leverages SoftLayer virtual servers for scalability and bare metal
servers for performance
- Can be scaled out as growth increases or to handle seasonal
traffic spikes
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Benefits
- Load balancer redundancy
- Web server redundancy
- Faster acceleration
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- DB server redundancy
- Web servers auto scale
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Cloud Architecture
- Redundant load balancers
- Redundant web servers
- SoftLayer Object Storage
- SoftLayer Auto Scale
- Private network
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- Redundant firewalls
- Redundant DB servers
- SoftLayer CDN
- Public network
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Configuration Details
- Highly resilient, no single point of failure
- Able to handle traffic for a very large e-commerce site
- Auto Scale handles unpredictable traffic spikes automatically
- Increased security through the use of dedicated firewalls
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Benefits
- Geographic redundancy
- Load balancer redundancy
- Web server redundancy
- Capable of Internet scale
- DB server redundancy
- Auto Scale for web servers
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Cloud Architecture
- Multiple data centers
- Redundant load balancers
- Redundant web servers
- SoftLayer Object Storage
- Public network
- Global load balancers
- Redundant firewalls
- Redundant DB servers
- SoftLayer CDN
- Private network
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Configuration Details
- Globally redundant infrastructure
- Best practice disaster recovery
- Geo load balancers direct traffic between locations
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- Able to handle traffic for a very large, global E-commerce site
- Auto Scale handles unpredictable traffic spikes automatically
- Increased security through the use of dedicated firewalls
- Highly resilient, no single point of failure
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Accelerated Time to Market
Spend more time building your business and less time building your infrastructure by deploying SoftLayer infrastructure in real-time via our portal or API. That means you can get automated deployment of virtual servers, bare metal servers, firewalls, load balancers, and more, whenever you need them.
Pay As You Go
Customers win when you can save. SoftLayer’s automated platform provides complete control of your infrastructure allowing you scale up and down on demand with no upfront costs or long-term contracts.
To see how e-commerce companies are using SoftLayer’s cloud platform to succeed, check out the following customers’ stories:
Create Your Own E-commerce Solution
No two e-commerce solutions are the same. SoftLayer allows you to design (and only pay for) the infrastructure that your solution requires. Here are some of the typical components you’ll find in many e-commerce infrastructure solutions.
Load Balancing
Increase application or site availability and performance by distributing traffic across local or globally diverse resources.
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Database Servers
Customize bare metal servers’ RAM and CPU configurations for optimal I/O speeds for specific database applications.
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Application Servers
Power applications with robust physical bare metal servers for fast response times.
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Web Servers
Scale virtual cloud servers on-demand to meet site load requirements during traffic spikes.
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Object Storage
Tag, store, and find data in a robust, infinitely scalable object storage solution with built-in search and CDN integration.
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Content Delivery Network
Put content on 24 nodes throughout the cloud, keeping it closer to end users to minimize the distance the data has to travel.
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Hardware Firewall
Protect servers from malicious activity with enterprise-grade firewalls provisioned on demand.
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Backup
Leverage large, fast local storage and automated backup systems with encryption arrays.
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Maximize Your Bottom Line
Calculate the financial benefits of moving your store’s IT to SoftLayer.
Cloud resources deliver the performance and flexibility you need for your e-commerce environment, often at a lower cost than on-premises implementations. Use our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to determine the capex and opex savings you can expect by moving from in-house infrastructure to SoftLayer.
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