In response to the credit crunch and the postal strike in the UK, PEER 1 Hosting has launched a hosting plan specifically to meet the current needs of companies who need to sell their products online. The specialized package is meant to handle the ten-fold increase that some websites see during the holiday season, with options to scale back to a smaller plan once the holiday season is over.

This kind of flexibility will come in handy for e-commerce sites: no one can risk a server going down during the busiest sales season of the year, but for companies relying even more heavily on online sales this year, such as British-based businesses coping with a postal strike, reliability is even more important. But no one wants to pay for hosting they won’t use, either. This plan makes the decision between the two options much easier.