Windows Interoperability Cuts TCO and Serves up Fresh Opportunities for Web Hosting Company
AussieHQ is an Australian Web services provider, offering domain registration, Web site hosting, and in-house application development to more than 50,000 customers. To provide its clients with tightly integrated, database-driven Web applications, AussieHQ implemented Windows ServerŪ 2008, resulting in a robust, high-performance platform that provides easy integration with customers' Web-based business systems.
Industry: Hosting, Application-Service, And Software As A Service Providers
AussieHQ provides more than 50,000 customers with a full range of hosted Web, email, application, managed services and related solutions from its ASIO T4 Standard security-compliant data centre.
Business Situation
Customers increasingly wanted tightly integrated, database-driven Web applications, which AussieHQ did not believe it could economically develop in its open source environment.
Solution
Windows ServerŪ 2008 provided a robust, high-performance Web application platform that provided easy integration with customers' Web-based business systems.
Benefit
Faster scripting for new Web sites.
Support for a wider range of business applications.
Increased customer appeal.
Support for PHP- and ASP.Net-based applications.
Reduced management overheads.
Software
Windows Server 2008
Quote
"PHP applications on an open source stack were faster than when they were hosted on Windows Server 2003, but Windows Server 2008 is faster than both of them."
