Pipex to provide Sport Relief fundraising websites
Howard Lake | 13 July 2006 | News
Comic Relief has chosen Pipex Network Services to provide connectivity, hosting and management for the infrastructure that supports its online presence and digital donations for Sport Relief 2006.
Pipex Network Services will provide a secure, high capacity network interface and resilient managed hosting solutions to ensure that the charity will be able to process millions millions of pounds worth of donations via its sportrelief.com website and interactive TV. Transaction volumes are expected to peak at £540,000 during the busiest 15 minutes of the live BBC ONE programme tomorrow.
Security and continuity measures include multiple layer redundant firewalls and VPN access, housing the infrastructure within two data centres located over 250km apart in a pair of regionally load-balanced web server farms, and implementing full onsite and offsite backup and failover plans.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.