Web Hosting Company Expects to Improve Uptime and Reduce IT Management Costs
The Easily division of Group NBT, a provider of Internet-based services in the UK, wanted to reduce the time it spent on troubleshooting and routine support tasks. To meet these needs, Easily implemented a Web server farm based on Windows Server® 2008 R2. The Windows solution allows the company's customers to run PHP in a Windows® environment, rather than on Linux. R2 is also allowing Easily to consolidate its hosting servers by more than 75 percent for an immediate savings of U.S. $55,000.
Industry: Hosting, Application-Service, And Software As A Service Providers
Group NBT is a hosting provider with customers throughout Europe and the United States. Based in London, the company has 270 employees and is a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner.
Business Situation
A division of Group NBT wanted to simplify management of the 2,700 Windows®-based Web sites in its shared-hosting environment. It also sought to enhance service for its customers.
Solution
Group NBT is implementing Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Internet Information Services 7.5 in a Web server farm. It is running both PHP and Microsoft ASP.NET applications on Server Core installations.
Benefit
Improves availability
Eases management and enhances customer service
Cuts server hardware and energy costs
Provides more flexibility
Software
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Windows Powershell 2.0
Quote
"We discovered that PHP runs very well on IIS 7.5, and that there have been improvements in the way ASP.NET handles memory, which helps us scale better and improve performance."
