Selling products or services online requires performance, reliability and scalability to support fluctuations in demand. The hosting model employed should be a flexible one, which allows use of several integrated technologies as well as easy advancement and adaptation of the website throughout its lifecycle.

Performance and availability requirements increase in proportion to the magnitude of the website and the volume of sales. Most of the times, the hosting budget does not grow in the same proportion. This is why ALOG believes in increasing not only processing capacities and Internet connection bandwidth during times in which sales volumes are higher, and reducing them when sales are lower. Secure connections for client transactions and for website management are also important issues to be considered.

The best hosting models for e-commerce applications are: Distributed, Balanced and Cluster. These models are supplemented by services such as Remote Access and VPN.