Cedric Anes, Chief Technical Officer and founder of Twenga remarked, ”In one year, the amount of net pages scanned by our crawler doubled from a hundred million to two hundred million. This fast expansion put extremely high demands on our server capacity.
We managed to depend on LeaseWeb’s large hosting capacity to scale up quickly. LeaseWeb’s capability to add servers at any point was a vital factor in our quick growth’.
This robust expansion in server capability was driven by the success of Twenga’s thirteen web sites, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the US and Australia. Twenga is a worldwide price comparison and shopping search engine. In March 2008, Twenga received about 11,000,000 visits each month and indexed thirty thousand e-retailers.
One year later, by March 2009, these numbers had grown to twenty-two million visits and sixty thousand e-retailers. Twenga’s product offering also grew noticeably, from seventy million to over 130 million products. Twenga’s server enlargement was designed essentially to meet the accelerating demands of its crawler, the TwengaBot. It uses some two hundred out of Twenga’s three hundred servers.
LeaseWeb delivers a dedicated, Linux-based hosting solution that uses LeaseWeb’s world hosting network to Twenga.
The solution now surrounds three hundred servers, distributed by LeaseWeb over a chain of nineteen in. racks in CO2 neutral info center EvoSwitch. Twenga’s server infrastructure, as installed at LeaseWeb, includes crawler servers, search servers, web servers and database servers. The hosting solution also incorporates Cisco networking hardware,eg switches, firewalls and load balancers.
The hosting solution was designed by Twenga’s engineers in partnership with LeaseWeb’s engineers. Twenga, the new-generation search engine, is built to permit millions of purchasers across the world to find what they need, at the best price, from the web shop of their choice. Thanks to its exclusive technology, Twenga mechanically gathers offers from online shops and displays them in one searchable interface.
As a consequence, Twenga has the most elaborate listing of internet shops. Its search results are objective and not biased by commercial relations. Set up in 2006 by Bastien Duclaux and Cedric Anes, Twenga is located in Paris, France ; its thirteen sites, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the U. S.
And Australia, display more than 130 million offers from over sixty thousand online shops. LeaseWeb is a world supplier of hosting solutions that is focused on the business market. The company is noted on the world top twenty of hosting suppliers and offers services like virtualization, dedicated servers, colocation, streaming, website hosting and domain name registration.
LeaseWeb owns a first rate network with a bandwidth surpassing 5 hundred Gbps and expands thru the main telecomms carriers across four info centers in the Amsterdam area. LeaseWeb also has a presence in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, NY, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid thru Net exchanges. As a consequence, LeaseWeb enables corporations worldwide to make and maintain their net presence in a straightforward and cost efficient demeanour.
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