Case Studies

Host365 provides high speed, reliable internet services to a broad range of industry types and sizes. Here are a few of the many clients we have helped achieve their online goals. For further information on these or any other Host365 service, please contact our sales team.

Carling Academy – co-location
McKenzie Group Ltd (MKG) is one of the fastest growing live venue owners and operators in the UK with a national network of prestigious and award winning Carling Academy venues in Brixton (London), Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Islington (London), as well as West London's Shepherd's Bush Empire; plus two Bar Academy sites in the Midlands and the Capital. MKG venues are famous for offering unrivalled live music and club nights across the country with a unique importance for acts on the live touring circuit.

The McKenzie group has previously relied on the Host365 shared server infrastructure & IT Management skills but as a consequence of the groups continued nationwide expansion, decided to deploy a collocated server on the Host365 network.

Archie McIntosh, the group's Project manager said of the move; "Being in the live music business, we start the hard work when most companies are winding down for the day and keep on working well in to the small hours. It is therefore vital to us to partner with a provider that can deliver round the clock stability and support. As a rapidly expanding company with a range of heavy traffic web sites, with millions of hits per month, we needed to review our hosting arrangement to allow for continued expansion. We therefore decided to build on the relationship we have with Host365 by co-locating our server on their network."

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Buena Vista International – managed server
BVI is the parent company of the Disney brand, a global organisation with a diverse business portfolio ranging from film and television to theme parks.

Host365 designed and implemented an extranet for BVI to manage European film merchandise distribution across its 35+ European offices. Developed using Cold Fusion technology the extranet was for some years hosted on Host365’s shared server platform.

In conjunction with the introduction of a further extranet to manage the distribution of film media elements with consequentially high space requirements for high resolution media images, BVI recently upgraded to a Host365 managed server solution.

In so doing, Host365 has given BVI the ability to successfully meet its burgeoning space requirements while leveraging the power of Host365’s superior network with fast access for business and media partners worldwide while depending on the highly skilled Host365 technicians that keep their server running 365 and additionally avoiding the cost implications of managing and maintaining in house infrastructure.

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Welsh Blood Service – Shared Server
The Welsh Blood Service collects over 10,000 blood donations per month from the volunteering public, tests it, processes it, and stores it before delivery to hospitals around Wales . In addition, it provides special reference services and antenatal blood testing services to hospitals and the Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory (WTAIL) provides the information which transplantation units need on whether organ donors are a match for the patients requiring transplants. The WTAIL also administers and maintains the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry.

The Welsh Blood Services web sites and email perform a vital role in providing information and registration services to the Welsh community and in providing essential information regarding Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics information, data and research to the scientific and medical community around the world.

With such a vital role to play the WBS naturally needs to depend on a reliable internet supplier who can keep this data and communication fast and available round the clock.

For over 6 years, Host365’s Shared Server facility has been providing the Welsh Blood Service with the levels of speed, resilience and capacity essential to their round the clock delivery of this information. Host365’s Shared Server offers the Welsh Blood Service an affordable solution with complete dependability backed up by its Service Level Agreement (SLA) and in addition a scalable solution that can grow with their needs.

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CareConnect Learning – hosting options
Careconnect Learning operates as a partnership between UNISON, health & social care employers, Learndirect and the Workers Educational Association (WEA), which is the UK 's leading provider of adult learning in workplace and community settings.

Careconnect Learning facilitates staff learning at work and at home in ways which use the flexibility provided by computer based learning to overcome obstacles to learning such as shift working and the pressures of domestic and working life.

Careconnect Learning is very much an IT centric organisation, depending heavily on its web site to both deliver information to the public and members. The site is designed using Cold Fusion technology, a technology which few hosting companies offer.

Host365 has been offering Cold Fusion based site hosting since its inception and enables Careconnect Learning to depend on its database driven website as part of its overall company strategy.

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Moby – brand protection
Moby is an internationally known singer with a string of popular hits and top selling albums and singles. Recently on winning the DanceStar award for Outstanding Contribution to American Dance Music, Ben Turner, DanceStar’s Creative Director said “In the twenty years he has been making electronic music, he has been at the forefront of this genre and he’s probably done more for its global development than any other artist worldwide”.

The moby.com domain name had been registered by another party who had considered building a brand around the name. Host365, acting in conjunction with the various legal representatives of the involved parties, negotiated a successful handover of the domain name to Moby.

Since that time, Host365 has been depended on to continue protecting the Moby brand through ongoing management of the domain name.

If your company is concerned by potential brand devaluation through loss of its domain name or the registration of its brand name in global domain name extensions, please visit our Brand Protection area of our web site or contact our sales team who will be happy to discuss your concerns.

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