Case Study - Vital Football

Introduction
Vital Football is the sports network run by the fans for the fans. This new and exciting network allows passionate supporters of football to have their say about the beautiful game. Covering all the UK football leagues, from the premiership to the Scottish third division, Vital Football aims to be the one stop resource for everything football.

Requirements
The vital football website is very content rich and the following criteria had been set:

• Large disk space
• Multiple FTP access for various Journalists
• Expansion and load balancing options

The Solution
The site is based on our Windows Professional Plus servers. Based on a powerful Pentium 4 Processor with 80Gb of hard drive space on a RAID format, this provided a perfect setup for a new startup company. The server is capable of running the many multiple FTP connections required, as well as dealing with peak volumes (eg after and during matches). The RAID disk mirroring helps keep down costs with the added benefit of knowing that in the event of data corruption or disk failure an immediate backup is available ensuring information is not lost and downtime is non-existant.

Scalable Solutions
Should demand increase beyond what the server can reliably perform, additional temporary servers are available on short-term 1 month contracts. Thanks to our unmetered data transfer solutions the number of customers visiting, or their frequency, will not penalise the company with additional charges beyond their subscription.

Vital Football can be found at: http://www.vitalfootball.co.uk/