Whirlpool.net.au moves to Bulletproof Networks

Whirlpool is delighted to broadcast that it has protected sponsorship hosting with Bulletproof Networks, with the wallop-over occurring this morning. Whirlpool would like to thank WebCentral for its many years of benefit, which helped the location grow to what it is nowadays.

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Media Release - Whirlpool.net.au has migrated Australia’s prime telecommunication forum from Melbourne IT’s WebCentral to Bulletproof Networks.

The requirement motivated the move for an urgent improvement in performance coupled with Whirlpool’s need to safe a long period policy to cater for impending swelling.

“The major aim in touching to Bulletproof was to upgrade our place performance,” said Whirlpool’s misfire Simon Wright. “Bulletproof projected a comprehensive answer to our urgent and long-name needs, and we liked what we heard.”

The move is just the first sign in a thespian infrastructure and architecture improvement fling, stirring the current place to best-rehearse architecture for like high passage or cargo sites.
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“Along with the close performance improvements gained by moving to Bulletproof’s breezy server infrastructure, it was basic that we view ourselves for outlook inquire,” added Whirlpool’s Phil Sweeney.

As a result, the next movement in the staged migration revolve out, involving a move to the proven reliability and scalability of VMware ESX 3.5-based abundant virtualised servers hosted on Bulletproof’s own dedicated VM hosting platform has already begun.

“We’ve already done a lot of work to optimise the SQL environment. Nevertheless there’s only so much you can do with tuned environment limitations, caching layers and application-smooth optimisations. Virtualisation doesn’t just give us the ability to ascend more effectively, it gives us an almost unlimited faculty to carefully and cheaply experiment in a near-live environment,” said Simon Wright.

Finally, the venture represents a good cultural fit, with Bulletproof’s open obtain philosophy matching well with the strict village comment that has become a Whirlpool stamp.

About Whirlpool is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. Since 1998, it has been the chief Australian broadband information situate and village forum, and has remained angrily independent. Its chief frequented discussion forums IT and telco trade figures, hardware/software vendors, technology enthusiasts and casual users. Whirlpool also incorporates Broadband Choice, Australia’s major list of broadband policy and networking hardware. The spot receives over 1 million hits and is visited by more than 150 220 thousand sole users every day.

About Bulletproof Networks

Since 2001 Bulletproof Networks has been delivering hosting and outsourced management and monitoring services, ensuring website availability, application performance and mission-grave infrastructure is comprehensively monitored and performs faultlessly.
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