New webserver hosting and migration
AC Education are leading supplier of e-learning to providers of children’s and adult services.
Their BTEC application was built “in-house” so they were looking for a company who could quickly familiarise themselves with the product and:
- Provide ongoing support to their staff to support the BTEC program
- Provide consultancy on their:
- Current hosting situation and expenditure
- Website performance
- Website Backup
- Website Security
- Formulate a plan to attempt to:
- Save money on hosting
- Reduce licensing costs
- Increase the application security
- Recover the site in the event of a disaster
We successfully worked with AC Education and:
- Transferred site from a traditional hosted server to a Cloud Based server with Rackspace:
- Reducing hosting costs
- Improving response times in the event of an issue
- Installing a proper backup strategy for both Website and Database
- Migrated the Application from ACF (Adobe ColdFusion) to Railo (An OpenSource CFML language)
- Improving the performance and security of the site
- Saving on licensing costs