The SCOOTER Store Chooses Rackspace for Web Hosting

Rackspace® Hosting, a leading hosting services provider, today announced an agreement to provide managed hosting services for The SCOOTER Store, America's leading supplier of scooters and power chairs for people with limited mobility.

Rackspace hosts thescooterstore.com, a key source for new business opportunities and lead referrals. Uptime is essential for The SCOOTER Store as a means for customers to shop online and communicate directly with The SCOOTER Stores mobility consultants.

Before moving our infrastructure to Rackspace, The SCOOTER Store held everything in-house, and the redundancy we needed just wasnt there. We had a fiber cut and our website was down for several hours. When the website is down, our business suffers, said Jay Greene, senior vice-president of information technology, The SCOOTER Store. Since moving our infrastructure to Rackspace, we have improved the system performance by 100 percent. By shielding ourselves from a single point of failure, we have the redundancy, reliability and most important, the support to have our website optimized 24/7.

The SCOOTER Store takes advantage of Rackspaces Intensive® Hosting for Enterprise Microsoft offering, relying on an advanced configuration architected for high-availability and full redundancy. Running Windows Server 2003 on multiple HP ProLiant DL385 enterprise servers, The SCOOTER Store configuration includes a dedicated direct attached storage (DAS) solution and managed backup, all monitored 24/7 by Rackspace technicians. Rackspaces Intensive Hosting also provides managed security, performance-enhancing gear and advanced MS SQL database services.

The SCOOTER Stores mission is to provide freedom and independence to people with limited mobility, and Rackspace is happy to do its part to help ensure The SCOOTER Store website is always available, said Glenn Reinus, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Rackspace Hosting. Along with redundancy and reliability, The SCOOTER Store leverages Rackspaces DAS storage solution to isolate any issues the company might experience with network connectivity or any other system issues. All their online leads are written to a database at Rackspace and a batch process is run to pull those prospects into their environment, ensuring The SCOOTER Store captures and secures lead prospect information in a manner that safeguards this crucial business information on all fronts.

About The SCOOTER Store

Since 1991, The SCOOTER Store has helped provide freedom and independence to more than 300,000 people with limited mobility. The SCOOTER Store offers a full line of durable medical equipment, including power wheelchairs and scooters, lifts, ramps and accessories in 48 states and Puerto Rico. The SCOOTER Store has worked with more than 100,000 physicians, providing expertise and quality service to their patients, and is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care.

About Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting delivers hosted IT systems and computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the companys award-winning Fanatical Support®. Customers can receive benefits such as higher quality, lower cost and better performance from Rackspaces vast knowledge of industry best-practices. Because Rackspace removes the burden of IT systems maintenance and management, customers can focus on key areas that differentiate their business. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com). Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazines 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. For more information on Rackspace Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com or call 800-961-2888.

Contacts:

Rackspace Hosting, San Antonio
John Chattaway, 210-312-5331
john.chattaway@rackspace.com

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