Last year, Managed Hosting company Dedigate celebrated its 5th year of continues growth. Kelkoo, one of the first customers at Dedigate is a driving force behind this success. Kelkoo manages several comparison sites in Europe, offering customers to compare, buy and save money on their online purchases. From digital cameras towards a mother’s day gift, all offers from both well-known and unknown brands are compared on Kelkoo’s websites. Thomas Sarrazin is responsible for Kelkoo’s ICT department. In his case, online presence is vital for the business. We meet him in the Paris office of Kelkoo.
"Dedigate has been successful in following the growth of Kelkoo. The number of managed servers has doubled every year. Dedigate anticipates well on this extreme growth. Because of the high volumes of traffic Kelkoo generates, you would expect that the network also needs changes. But the network Dedigate engineered when we started with just a few servers is still more or less the same."
Prevent downtime
"To be honest, we have had no crashes in the last four years, due to technical limitations. However, we need to constantly anticipate on the growth of the environment. The concept of Redundant Data Centers has proven to be very successful for us. The Global Load Balancing concept offers us all necessary freedom to redirect traffic to one of the Data Centers and therefore anticipate on traffic peaks. If one Data Center should go down because of a disaster, we are still able to service all our customers form the other Data Center. Untill today, Dedigate has always been able to outstand the uptime we agreed on in the SLA."
Security with over 1 million visitors a day is a hot issue. Everything possible is done and will be done to prevent unwanted access to Kelkoo's applications. "From the start, we realized that security was a key factor to our success"
Last year, Yahoo! bought Kelkoo. It had a huge impact on the organisation.
"Yahoo! Is a financial stable organisation and it offers us entrances in new markets, e.g. Asia. Overall it gave us a better position in the market and from a play town Kelkoo emerged to a company with the right product, technology and business model. What did not change was the growth; we still double our organisation every single year. In the beginning this was hard to realize for the people we work with at Yahoo!, but nowadays they understand better why we are so successful. Today we have over 25.000 merchants and 70 affiliates, like MSN Shopping, Yahoo! Shopping."
Kelkoo continues focussing on new products.
"We are always on the lookout for new products and try to be ahead of new trends. Also we will expand to other regions, like Asia. All these new projects and products will lead to new projects we set up with Dedigate." Yes, I would like to receive more information
