HelmetHead Cycle, based in Georgia, US, is slated to change hosting companies in the first quarter of 2010. "We're currently developing on SliceHost servers, a subsidiary of RackSpace", says Jeremy Harris, director of the IT department for HelmetHead Cycle.
Though not yet hosting with a fully dedicated server, the VPS, or Virtual Private Server, offerings of SliceHost will enhance the speed of the site by providing features such as RAID-10 disk storage and 4-core servers.
"In order to secure our position as an online store with a lot of competition, we feel that this move may help to bridge the gap to some of our larger competitors. Hosting, alone, means beans to the general public, but with a stronger backend pushing out our content, we hope that the general public will feel that the site is speedy," says Harris.
HelmetHead Cycle has programmed their own shopping cart software, integrating security protocols such as network scanning and EV-SSL over the past 3 years. The company plans on launching a simplified facelift over the next several weeks, as search engine companies, such as Google, will soon be factoring in site speed for overall site rankings.
"In the past year and a half, we have programmed a mammoth framework backend to the site. It's essentially the drivetrain of a vehicle. What you see is the car body and color, but the backend is underneath the car. We're going to simplify our frontend, or web presence to a slight degree, throw in a few interactive features and hope for the best," Harris remarks.
