LeaseWeb - Twenga’s Web Hosting Capability with LeaseWeb Grows from 100 to 300 Servers in 1 Year

Store this angel in big sizeAmsterdam, 5 May 2009 – LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s better hosting providers, has accurate the amazing advance of its applicant Twenga. In the accomplished year, Twenga, the all-around online arcade seek engine has broadcast its hosting adequacy from 100 to 300 servers.

This able advance in server adequacy was apprenticed by the success of Twenga’s 13 Web sites, including the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the United States and Australia. Twenga is a all-around amount allegory and arcade seek engine. The aggregation was founded in 2006.

In March 2008, Twenga accustomed about 11 actor visits per ages and indexed 30,000 e-retailers. One year later, by March 2009, these numbers had developed to 22 actor visits and 60,000 e-retailers. Twenga’s artefact alms aswell grew significantly, from 70 actor to added than 130 actor products.

E-commerce Hosting
Twenga’s server amplification was advised primarily to accommodated the accretion demands of its crawler, the TwengaBot. This proprietary Web bot technology scans 200 millions Web pages every day. It uses some 200 out of Twenga’s 300 servers.

“In one year, the amount of Web pages scanned by our crawler angled from 100 actor to 200 million,” explained Cédric Anès, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Twenga. “This accelerated advance put actual top demands on our server capability. We were able to await on LeaseWeb’s ample hosting accommodation to calibration up rapidly. LeaseWeb’s adeptness to add servers at any time was a acute agency in our accelerated growth.”

Hosting: the Solution
LeaseWeb delivers a dedicated, Linux-based hosting band-aid that uses LeaseWeb’s all-around hosting arrangement (capacity: > 500 Gbps) to Twenga. The band-aid currently encompasses 300 servers, broadcast by LeaseWeb over a alternation of 19 inch racks in Amsterdam based CO2 aloof abstracts centermost EvoSwitch. Twenga’s server infrastructure, as installed at LeaseWeb, includes crawler servers, seek servers, web servers and database servers. The hosting band-aid aswell incorporates Cisco networking equipment, such as switches, firewalls and amount balancers. The hosting band-aid was advised by Twenga’s engineers in accord with LeaseWeb’s engineers. The closing aswell accommodate 24x7 installation, administration and knowledge-intensive abutment services.

Twenga
Twenga, the new-generation seek engine, enables millions of shoppers throughout the apple to acquisition what they want, at the best price, from the online boutique of their choice.
Thanks to its proprietary technology, Twenga automatically gathers offers from online retailers and displays them in one searchable interface. As a result, Twenga has the a lot of absolute advertisement of online shops. Its seek after-effects are cold and not biased by bartering relationships. Founded in 2006 by Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès, Twenga is headquartered in Paris, France; its 13 sites, including the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the United States and Australia, affectation added than 130 actor offers from over 60,000 online shops. In March 2009, Twenga sites accustomed over 22 actor visits.
www.twenga.com

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LeaseWeb
LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) is an all-embracing provider of hosting solutions that focuses on the business market. The aggregation is listed on the all-around top 20 of hosting providers and offers casework such as virtualization, committed servers, colocation, streaming, web hosting and area name registration. LeaseWeb owns a aboriginal amount arrangement with a bandwidth beyond 500 Gbps and expands via the capital telecom carriers above 4 abstracts centers in the Amsterdam area. LeaseWeb aswell has a attendance in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zürich, Prague and Madrid via Internet exchanges. As a result, LeaseWeb enables companies common to actualize and advance their online attendance in an simple and amount able manner. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb currently manages over 20,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s audience cover Starbucks, Royal Joh. Enschedé, Kaspersky Lab, WIGE MEDIA AG, 123Video.nl, zaplive.tv, OGD, Relatieplanet.nl, MyAlbum.com and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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