March 29, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host LeaseWeb has been chosen to host Dutch language dating network, Relatieplanet.nl (http://www.relatieplanet.nl), it was announced recently. The site, the largest dating site in the Netherlands and Belgium, has over 2.3 million members. LeaseWeb was chosen for its ability to guarantee the site’s uptime and options for expansion.
“It is important to Relatieplanet that the uptime of our hosting provider is extremely high,” explained Relatieplanet.nl’s Technical Manager, Marnix Wellinghoff. “Relatieplanet is a paid service, with people buying a one-month subscription, for instance. So you really can’t afford to be offline for a day or even half a day. In the past, we have been down for half a day with another hosting party and were forced to extend all subscriptions by a day. This costs us money – especially with our huge subscriber base – but it also costs you your reputation if it happens too often. So it is very important for us that the underlying internet infrastructure is guaranteed.”
“The possibilities are huge,” added Mr. Wellinghoff. “They have a lot of data center space and a highly scaleable Internet infrastructure. “Another major advantage is that LeaseWeb’s personnel is based in the same building as the EvoSwitch data center (http://www.evoswitch.com), which is extremely important for the delivered services. If something should go wrong, they will be at the data centre to solve things much more quickly than if they had to drive for 30 minutes to get there. LeaseWeb is also much more attractive than other market parties in terms of pricing. Our hosting environment at LeaseWeb has built-in redundancy with routers, firewalls and load balancers – at a price that other hosting providers charge for an architecture without built-in redundancy.”
