October 16, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider Macquarie Hosting (http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting) has signed a three-year deal with truelocal.com.au, it was announced today. The company will host truelocal.com.au’s online search directory - one of Australia’s fastest growing online business directories with listings for over 1.3 million Australian businesses.
The number of truelocal.com.au visitors has increased substantially since its launch in 2006 and intensive competitive analysis established Macquarie Hosting as best suited to cater for its growth. Macquarie will provide a “high-availability fully-managed hosting solution employing a sophisticated virtual server infrastructure running the VMware ESX environment”. The servers will be housed in the Intellicentre - Macquarie Hosting’s ISO and DSD Gateway certified data centre in Sydney.
As part of a select group of global hosting providers in the VMware Service Provider Program, the Macquarie platform will increase server capacity to cope with peaks in truelocal.com.au traffic without additional hardware investment and ensures a fast and smooth user experience for the site’s millions of visitors.
Following a competitive assessment of hosting providers, truelocal.com.au chose Macquarie Hosting based on its proven experience and ability to provide “24/7, low latency availability of mission critical applications”.
“Our commitment to deliver within the Australian local search category extends to the critical infrastructure supporting our service. We need to be confident that when millions of Australian consumers access our directory we can provide the fast, smooth and reliable experience they expect - one that will drive them back to us time and time again,” explained CEO of truelocal, Mr. Gary Cox.
“The Internet search market is exploding in Australia, currently estimated at $350 million, with organizations in this space looking for new ways to refine, develop and extend their offerings to customers so as to differentiate and compete,” added Macquarie Telecom’s Managing Director Hosting, Aidan Tudehope. "Macquarie Hosting's managed server virtualization offering is perfect for one hundred per cent web-based companies, offering the same level of proactive management, security and performance they expect from traditional hosted server environments but with the additional benefits of superior levels of agility, scalability, and business continuity.”
“Macquarie Hosting is a leader in enterprise server virtualization and has proven experience hosting mission critical applications for one hundred percent web-based companies,” continued Mr. Cox. “Working with the likes of Webjet, Showbiz.com.au and Loop Mobile, we felt confident Macquarie Hosting had the experience required to deliver the network availability and high levels of redundancy we require as well as an understanding of the nature of our business and customer demands for a smooth and reliable experience.”
