HOST-IT QUICKLY UNDERSTOOD AND SOLVED OUR CLOUD

HOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE

NEEDS BY HAVING A LOCAL

DATA CENTRE WITH DEDICATED

ON-SITE ENGINEERING

SUPPORT PERSONNEL . platform in-house . It ’ s very tough to break into the housing sector and we could not afford to risk our reputation due to any potential IT delivery issues .”

Key hosting partner criteria :

• Scalable and low latency hosting solution

• Proven infrastructure and IT support track record

• Data security and compliance credentials

• Price competitiveness

• Customer-centric service

The solution

Having considered various cloud hosting options including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS , Designer Software selected Host-IT as its hosting and infrastructure provider . Host-IT has been developing and hosting websites and operating its own data centres since 1995 . The company supports many types of clients both technical and non-technical including SMEs , large multinationals , local authorities , not-for-profit organisations , IT service providers and web development companies . Its services are strategically located at Proximity Data Centres ’ colocation data centre campus in Milton Keynes , a purpose-built , tier 3 standard 48,000 sq ft facility with multiple data halls . Providing 3MW of available power , the site offers low latency connectivity via multiple tier 1 carrier connections including dark fibres with fully diverse links .

Brock said : “ Host-IT quickly understood and solved our cloud hosting infrastructure needs by having a local data centre with dedicated on-site engineering support personnel . To help build the vital trust factor in front of our clients , it could also provide a demonstrable strong track record in serving public sector organisations . Equally important , it was prepared to grow with us even though back then we were in start-up mode .”

Initially , Host-IT helped implement a secure and partitioned ‘ shared server ’ for all HomeMaster clients . Today , however , there are an additional 15 ‘ private servers ’ in operation for meeting the different capacity and compliance requirements needs of the rapidly expanding client base . Recently , Host- IT also proposed , piloted and subsequently implemented new CPU architecture resulting in a 30 % processing performance increase while also further reducing latency .

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