DediPower Hosts ITV's Most Popular Website

DediPower Hosts ITV's Most Popular Website

READING, England, May 17/PRNewswire/ -- DediPower has been engaged by ITV.com to provide managed hosting services
to host one of ITV's most visited websites - emmerdalemurder.itv.com - the
"Who killed Tom King" interactive game site. Emmerdale is ITV's second most
popular TV property, with over 12 million regular viewers. The interactive
site allows users to gather clues to solve the murder, with daily content
updates to keep up with the on-screen storyline.

The growth of this website has far exceeded the expectation of ITV and
DediPower have been required to rapidly scale up their support by adding new
servers to match site demand. The site today has over 130,000 registered
users and continues to grow.

"We needed to get up and running fast so we needed a quick a turnaround.
DediPower were able to get the site up from scratch in under 24 hours with
sufficient power to ensure that it was able to cope with the unprecedented
number of visitors it has been receiving," commented David McAdam, Head of
Technology & Operations at ITV.com. "In just under 6 weeks we have more than
doubled the number of managed servers dedicated to emmerdalemurder.itv.com. I
have been very impressed with both the speed and the responsiveness of
DediPower. We will definitely be using them again."

DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and
enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower
hosts thousands of servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire
'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest
and most well known brands and companies in the world.

"ITV.com have been overwhelmed by the success of this website. At peak
times, the solution has had to cope with over 30,000 concurrent users. I am
pleased to say that we have been more than able to keep pace with the demand
and ensure that visitors to the site are able to enjoy to unlimited access
it," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.

For more information call +44-(0)-870-252-3600, email info@dedipower.com
or visit our website: www.dedipower.com

Source: Dedipower Managed Hosting Ltd

For more information call +44-(0)-870-252-3600, email info@dedipower.com

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