GRONINGEN - Juli 27th 2006 - RankOne Media Group (RMG), publishers of CD Freaks.com, announces today that is has selected VirtualConcepts to facilitate and manage its servers.
VirtualConcepts is a young company specialized in building flexible, reliable and scalable IT infrastructures. It has built a cluster for RMG of 9 servers that are in a load balanced setup, to guarantee availability and performance. Two backend servers are in a mixed failover setup for the best possible uptime. With CD Freaks.com (http://www.cdfreaks.com), worlds largest digital storage web log and community, RMG was looking for a solution that could handle over 100.000 unique visitors a day while guaranteeing maximum uptime, performance and remain scalable.
'Like any other website publisher we want to give our users the best possible experience in load times and uptimes', said Jan-Willem Aldershoff, Marketing director of RMG, 'we now have speed, stability and we are still able to easily add additional servers when our visitor count grows as expected'.
'We understood the requirements of RMG and were able to quickly build a solution that met their requirements', said Jurrit de Vries of Virtual Concepts, 'we will continue to give support, advice and make sure RMG's visitors have the best possible surfing experience'.
Currently RMG hosts their websites on 9 servers, good for nearly 54 Ghz of Intel Xeon CPU power, 18 GB DDR-RAM and 2 TB of hard disk space. Hardware support is outsourced to Dell Inc.
About RankOne Media Group
RankOne Media Group is a privately held online publishing company located in the Netherlands, specializing in community management. The main project is CDFreaks.com (http://www.cdfreaks.com) a website which reports about digital storage devices, media, software and legal issues and consequences in the United States and Europe. Please visit our website for more information at http://www.rankone.nl.
Contact information:
Jan Willem Aldershoff
jw.aldershoff@rankone.nl
About VirtualConcepts
VirtualConcepts is specialized in designing, implementing and maintaining Linux clusters. The use of multiple servers in a high performance network can reduce the risk of hardware failures, and can improve the performance of the services that are offered to customers, such as e-mail or web sites. Therefore, the objective of these clusters is to support business processes by providing availability and scalability of services. By using open source techniques, VirtualConcepts can provide performance and reliability, that is cost efficient and meets current business needs. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.virtualconcepts.nl.
Contact information:
Aike de Jongste
info@virtualconcepts.nl
Source: RMG
