November 29, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – 123Video.nl has found it hard to find a web host in the Netherlands that can provide the capacity it requires for its services, it was reported recently. The site receives around two million unique visitors per month, generating 80 million page views, and using 6 Gigabit per second data traffic usage. According to the company, “one of the few hosting suppliers in the Netherlands that can provide the infrastructure we need is LeaseWeb.”
“The hosting provider we were using at the time had a maximum capacity of 1 Gigabit per second for all of his clients,” explained 123Video’s Technical Manager, Mr. Marnix Wellinghoff, discussing the start up of the web site. “We filled that capacity in about a month, which meant that the websites for all of the other clients were totally unavailable. We were then cut down to about 60 percent of the data traffic that we actually had. That slowed the site down and streaming didn't work well at all. Films kept buffering and were constantly interrupted to load a new film fragment. Visitors lost interest, so we had to find an alternative solution quickly. We finally found it at LeaseWeb. LeaseWeb currently possesses a total broadband capacity of 150 Gbps; that's a huge difference with 1Gbps.”
123Video uses the same model as YouTube.com, but provides predominantly Dutch language content. The lack of capacity of the provider they initially chose caused videos to load slowly and play with limited quality.
“We are growing so fast that we will pass the 12 Gbps mark by next year, added Mr. Wellinghoff. “We really need a hosting party that has a high-quality network infrastructure available and that can scale bandwidth well. At LeaseWeb, they have the philosophy that they need to have twice as much capacity as their clients use. For us, that means that we can add bandwidth flexibly and without much time or effort.”
LeaseWeb provides a range of hosting products and services that are “primarily geared towards the professional market”. Its services include domain registration, web hosting, dedicated and colocated hosting, and VPS and streaming. All are offered with technical support. The company offers a network through six datacenters in Amsterdam that provides bandwidth of more than 150 Gbps. The company “is present via internet exchanges” in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid.
