There are certain types of business which we have identified where there is a particular fit with the hosting solutions that Rackspace provides and the level of service they need. Namely sectors where downtime isn't an option and service is of utmost importance.

For example if you sell online any downtime costs you revenue and hits your bottom line. If you publish content on the Internet, not publishing isn't an option! Or if you are a web developer you need a close working relationship with your hosting provider with often quite high support demands from you and your clients.

In addition if you deliver your application as a service over the web, both uptime and support will be of utmost importance to you.

Financial Services

Your business demands that you have 24/7/365 access to your trading systems, email, back-office applications and websites. Speed is key. Rapid access to information is crucial. And quick deployment for new projects is a must.

Effective delivery requires reliable hosting with proactive technical support from certified engineers. You need total confidence in the level of service that you’ll receive. Rackspace Hosting provides the zero downtime infrastructure to keep your sites and applications up and running 24/7/365.

Uptime guarantees and secure hosting are two of the key reasons why Financial Services organizations select Rackspace. Rackspace provides you with the largest team of Windows and Linux-certified experts dedicated to keeping your business running.

You focus on delivering the best applications for your Financial Services business. We'll give you the best infrastructure to deliver them.

Manufacturing

Whether you’re from FMCG, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, Hi-Tech, Aerospace, Oil and Gas or any other Manufacturing segment, Rackspace has a web or back office application hosting solution that can help you become more efficient.

Outsourcing your online infrastructure helps you focus on the activities that add true value to your business. Rackspace will take ownership for maintaining, patching, upgrading and monitoring the devices on which your websites and applications depend.

Whether it be a Marketing Website, or an outsourced Supply Chain Management or ERP solution, Rackspace’s award-winning Fanatical Support® gives you the assurance that you’ll go live in the fastest possible time, and we’ll be there around-the-clock to keep you up and running.

Public Sector

Security and cost effectiveness are key concerns for public sector managers looking to launch online projects. But rapid turnaround, guaranteed uptime and compliance to industry standards is also of paramount importance.

Rackspace quick deployment online infrastructure offers PCI DSS compliant solutions for transactional sites, as well as ISO27001 and SAS70 Type II compliant data centres to ensure 100% network availability around-the-clock.

Rackspace has extensive experience of public sector hosting, working with a variety of local government bodies, central government, defence, education and healthcare trusts.

The most stable hosting infrastructure to launch your sites and applications quickly and securely

Retail

As an online retailer your business depends upon your site being continually live and available for your customers. You know that any downtime or security breaches will result in lost revenue and a significant impact on your market reputation. You also need to know that your eCommerce infrastructure has the bandwidth flexibility to meet seasonal peaks and troughs in traffic.

Rackspace Hosting is as concerned with your uptime as you are. Our service level agreements are the best in the industry, giving you the confidence to focus on growing your business, rather than maintaining the infrastructure to support it. Rackspace works with thousands of companies transacting online all around the world, delivering benefits such as:

Rackspace's award winning customer service, Fanatical Support® makes us a different kind of company, easy to deal with, extremely flexible and incredibly responsive. In addition to 100% guaranteed network uptime and 1-hour hardware replacement, Rackspace clients get proactive planning to anticipate and prevent issues, unlimited technical phone support, access to our huge online knowledge prevent issues, unlimited technical phone support, access to our huge online knowledgebase and many other business critical support features.