Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has announced that the new South Africa Tourism website is being hosted by Rackspace Hosting.
“As part of the successful 2010 Soccer World Cup event, the SA Tourism site is considered a critical component of its success,” said SA Tourism e-Marketing Manager William Price, “The number of site visitors sky-rocketed following the reconstruction of our new site rising to a total of more than 250,000 a month since June 2009. This reflects an increase of more than 600%. Our site availability is of paramount importance to SA Tourism and for this reason our organisation had no hesitation in approaching international hosting and cloud computing specialist Rackspace to host the site. The site’s objective of a 1-million unique visitor count this year has already been more than achieved.”
The SA Tourism website is comprehensive without being overwhelming and offers a wealth of information, neatly categorised and easily available. Hot buttons include Best of SA, Traveller, Business Tourism, Media, Research, Plan your trip and About SA. Other information-rich features include Adventure & Sport, Wildlife & Safari, Culture and Heritage, Natural & Scenic and Entertainment & Leisure.
“Rackspace has been extremely responsive to our needs,” added Price. “They are indeed fanatical about their customer service and very proactive. Rackspace provided highly professional assistance with our migration and their proactive approach has pre-empted possible problems. Support of this calibre makes our user experience as smooth and rewarding as possible and is vital for our consumer-centric approach. We cannot tolerate site downtime and hence we have a 100% network uptime guarantee with Rackspace.”
Ongoing hosting service from Rackspace helps enable SA Tourism to achieve its objectives of being the authority on South Africa travel information and meet the overall needs of first-time English-speaking visitors to South Africa.
Via EPR Network
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