Iomart Hosting guarantees LSE website availability

Iomart Hosting has revealed how its hosting services have enabled the London School of Economics and Political Science to guarantee the availability of its new and improved website.

Iomart Hosting owns and operates its own network of five UK data centres.

The company designed, built and now maintains a hardware platform that supports the website that contains more than 100,000 pages of data on fully secure servers located away from the LSE's London campus.

Stephen Emmott, head of web services for the LSE, said: 'Like most universities we have been quite traditional in managing and hosting our own data on site.

'But we realised it would make sense to use an external supplier so that if there were any on-site problems, for instance with power, it would not affect the use of our website,' he added.

Iomart Hosting created a content management system specifically for the task of moving the LSE's information onto its external servers.

It was essential that the existing website continued to function while the data and server migration took place.

Each of the 100,000-plus pages has as many as 400 points of contact, so the process has taken many months.

The decision by the LSE to have its website hosted externally also allowed it to increase the wealth of information it can now offer to both students and the wider population.

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