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Scenario 2 - High Performance

Scenario 2: High Performance!

The customer was using a dual server solution to host his database driven e-commerce web site. However due to a recent and successful marketing campaign traffic levels to the web server had reached an unprecedented level, over-stretching the server resources on the single web server. This resulted in frequent periods of downtime on the customers e-commerce site, resulting in lost revenue and frustrated customers.

The problem was made worse by an insufficient back-up policy; although the data had been backed up the restoration time of several hours was not acceptable for such a business model. On top of this the increased traffic to the database driven website led to higher demands on the database server, above and beyond the expectations when the server was initially configured.

Scenario 2

In order to maximise the return on investment (ROI) from the marketing campaign our technical experts introduced a second web server and hardware load balancer to handle the increased traffic to the web site. Further to this we added an additional CPU to the database server, and reconfigured the RAID level for better performance and redundancy.

  • Managed Firewall (FW)
    - Firewall filters Internet traffic and improves server security
  • Load Balancer (LB)
    - Load Balancer divides site traffic between two or more Web servers, improving performance and providing redundancy
  • 2x Web server (WS)
    - Dedicates the resources to serve the Web-pages
  • Database server (DB)
    - Dedicates the resources of one server to processing database requests
  • Backup service (Backup)
    - Backup service with full weekly and daily incremental back-up schedule

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    2x Load Balanced Web Servers (LB)
    OS: Windows/Red Hat ES
    Hardware: DS 120x model
  • Single XEON 3.0 GHz
  • 2048 MB ECC DDRAM
  • 2 x 80 GB SATA (RAID 1)
  • Intelligent IP Load Balancing
  • True fail-over
    • Database Server (DB)
    OS: Windows/RedHat ES
    Hardware: DS 230x model
  • Dual XEON 3.0 GHz
  • 4096 MB ECC DDRAM
  • 4 x 73 GB SCSI (RAID 5)
    • Backup service (Backup)
    OS: Independent
    Hardware: Enterprise NAS Server
  • Centralised storage array
  • Full Weekly with daily incremental
  • Off-Site backup possible
    • Managed FireWall (FW)
    OS: Independent
    Hardware: Cisco
  • Protection against network attacks
  • Access enabled to strictly defined ports
  • Constant monitoring of all server ports

  • Customised Windows and Linux Servers
  • Business and Technical Account Managers
  • 24/7 Proactive Support Services
  • Server Performance/Availability Monitoring
  • Proactive Security Patches/Software Updates
  • Network-Level Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Protection
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  • Fully Managed Data Backups and Restores
  • Advanced Content/Traffic Load Balancing
  • MS SQL, MySQL Database Clusters
  • Meshed 100Mbps and 1000Mbps Networking
  • One Hour Hardware Replacement Guarantee
  • Hosted in Level3 World Class Data Centre

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