High Traffic Hosting

Heavy Loads Demand Heavy Lifting

It is crucial that web pages snap to attention for the best user experience. The goal is to drive latency down to only a few milliseconds. Some elements are beyond your control, such as the speed of the user’s computer, mobile device, and internet connection. For controllable elements we provide professional tools and deep experience to tune that.

BUSINESS BENEFITS

Time saving management services

A lot has changed since The Times starting publishing in 1785. Both you, and your readers/viewers, traded paper and analog media for computer screens and smart phones. But you’re a publisher, not an IT firm. Modern media is 24/7, with deadlines throughout the day, every day. You don’t have time to deal with website problems. Digital publishers have different needs than other types of sites.

Fullstack Web Performance Optimisation (WPO)

We differentiate ourselves from other hosting companies by engaging with our customers on a code-level basis. Our developers know how each webstack best interfaces with the most popular content management platforms, including Drupal, WordPress, Expression Engine, and Joomla.

Surf Tsunami Traffic spikes without Disruption

To handle a tsunami swell of traffic you need load balancing, horizontal scaling, and a high availability architecture. Horizontal adds web and database servers to meet surging demand. Automated scripts monitor load and spin up VMs. The other key strategy is fault tolerance in the application and hardware layer. For that we use VMWare HA, which is best-in-class.

Deep Insights into Application Performance

We provide NewRelic APM (Application Performance Monitoring) to our customers and use it ourselves too. It is one of the best tools on the market. It flags bottlenecks in the application both at the component layer and from the end-user perspective, broadcasts alerts to dashboards and the client’s smartphone, and lets analysts and programmers drill into the code.

Expert NGiNX and Varnish Implementations

In many cases we suggest to customers that they left us migrate them from Apache to NGINX. It has a better multithreaded model that uses less sockets and memory. We use Varnish web server too, which takes advantage of technology originally built for client-side caching. It executes CGI scripts (e.g., PHP) very fast.

Front and Backend Performance Audits

We conduct performance audits with our customers to recommend best practices and isolate performance issues. Then we suggest alternative approaches in our customer’s code to boost performance. Our clients pick which suggestions to incorporate.

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Lets us find what best suits your business needs and help you with whatever you want to do next.

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