DediPower hosts ITV's most popular website

READING, UK - 17th May 2007:  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. 

About ITV
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities. The ITV Network is made up of 15 regional licences, providing television to viewers across the UK. 11 of the licences in England and Wales are owned by ITV Plc, formed in 2004 following the merger of Carlton and Granada. SMG owns the two Scottish licences, Scottish Television and Grampian; UTV and Channel Television own the licences for Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands respectively. 

About DediPower Managed Hosting
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built 11,000 sq ft data centre in Reading, UK. For more information call DediPower on 0870 252 3600, email info@dedipower.com or visit our website http://www.dedipower.com