Websites have become critical components of most businesses’ core operations. They support the brand and ordering process, serve as data information resources and assist in overall customer care. Having poor website performance or poor reliability can destroy or severely damage a business and its reputation. The increasing importance of these websites leads to critical requirements of security, reliability and scalability. Delivering these, however, can leave an SMB stretched beyond its resources.
REDPLAID Managed
Hosting Delivers Reliable
Infrastructure for Hosting
Small-to-Medium Sized
Businesses' Web
Applications
information resources and assist in overall customer care. Having poor website performance or poor reliability can destroy or severely REDPLAID Managed Hosting is a damage a business and its leading provider of secure and reputation. The increasing reliable managed hosting solutions importance of these websites leads targeted at small-to-medium sized to critical requirements of security, businesses (SMBs) worldwide. reliability and scalability. Delivering REDPLAID is a division of these, however, can leave an SMB Connectria Corporation, a highly- stretched beyond its resources. regarded provider of customized Many SMBs do not have the budget managed hosting solutions for to maintain a full IT support staff nor hundreds of marquee customers a redundant data center throughout the world. Connectria environment. As a result, many formed REDPLAID after identifying organizations turn to a managed an emerging trend in the hosting provider such as REDPLAID. marketplace- because of the very In order to provide the high levels of public security breaches and security, reliability and scalability worldwide disasters, SMBs were in REDPLAID required for its need of very reliable and very secure customers, REDPLAID began a hosting solutions just like large search for an effective load companies. The primary difference balancing solution. It required a was SMBs needed solutions that manageable device with high were easy to implement and very availability that was easy to operate cost-effective. Connectria formed for customers who might not be well REDPLAID to address this growing versed in such technology. The load need, and in 2005 REDPLAID's balancer also needed to be priced to engineers began building their meet SMB budgets. solutions with these design criteria in mind. The "Hosted" Solution REDPLAID considered many The Challenge vendors before selecting one to offer Websites have as its standardized load balancer become critical solution. Based on its customer components of requirements of a well-priced high-most availability solution with a simple businesses' core web interface, REDPLAID selected operations. They KEMP Technologies. KEMP support the showcased itself as a leader in brand and application delivery controllers and ordering server load balancer appliances. process, serve KEMP maintains a long history of as data assisting SMBs to rapidly grow their
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businesses with high-availability, REDPLAID standardized its load improved web infrastructure balancing and application delivery performance, scalability and secure controller needs by offering solutions operations - while streamlining their from one vendor - KEMP IT costs. Technologies. Working with KEMP since 2006, REDPLAID offers all of KEMP's products to its customers: LoadMaster 1500, 2500 and 3500 load balancer appliances. The LoadMaster 1500 serves REDPLAID clients as an intelligent and efficient appliance that distributes web traffic, as well as provides the infrastructure for reliable Internet and intranet sites. The LoadMaster 2500 combines the latest advancements in content switching technology with a high-performance hardware platform. The LoadMaster 3500 is more advanced, with 8 gigabit-port server load balancing and Layer 7 content switching. "We researched many load "Our customers expect a highly balancing solutions to standardize available environment that doesn't our company offering and KEMP cost a lot, will run flawlessly, and is quickly rose to the top of our list," easy to setup and maintain. We are said Rusty Putzler, Vice President of able to deliver this to our customers Engineering for REDPLAID based on our standardized KEMP Managed Hosting. "KEMP was able load balancing platform," added to provide our customers with the Putzler. high-availability, security and reliability they need to run their All of the KEMP products also offer
businesses on a daily basis. More Layers 4-7 load balancing and
importantly, the number of content switching, Secure Sockets
capabilities received for the price of Layer (SSL) Offl... [download for more]
