Zeus Technology helps to power Red Nose Day's online success
rednoseday.com, powered by Zeus Web Server, has proved more successful than ever, handling a 100 percent increase in online donations for this year's Red Nose Day
Zeus Technology, an acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that rednoseday.com, powered by Zeus Web Server, has proved more successful than ever, handling a 100 percent increase in online donations for this year's Red Nose Day fundraising campaign compared with the previous event in 2003. More than 1.1 million people visited rednoseday.com during the campaign with Zeus Web Server helping Comic Relief to serve 51 million pages quickly and securely. Overall the site received more than 155 million hits in four weeks.
Martin Gill, Head of New Media at Comic Relief commented, "Over £4m was raised through more than 120,000 online donations this year. The Zeus Web Server was again a core element of our secure and scalable architecture. Working alongside our other partners Cisco Systems, Macromedia, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Zeus's product helped us confidently handle the huge BBC ONE-driven traffic peak we get on the night."
"Zeus Web Server is designed to sustain high levels of traffic and concentrated peak periods making it the ideal web server platform for rednoseday.com", commented Steve Palmer, VP Marketing, Zeus Technology. "We are proud to be a long term supporter of Comic Relief and provide them with the some of the technology they need to deliver a fast, reliable website as part of their new media fundraising campaign."
Comic Relief's e-commerce platform processed over £7m on the night of Red Nose Day this year, authorizing more than 225,000 transactions in less than seven hours.
Zeus Web Server is the most scalable, high-performance web server software available, underpinning business-critical solutions for the world's leading web hosting, content provider and secure e-commerce companies. Flexible web- based management, extensive integration capabilities, and the most comprehensive range of features available from commercial web server software combine to provide fully extensible and future-proof web-based solutions.
Zeus Web Server regularly wins awards as best in class and is the industry standard for SPECweb and SPECweb_SSL benchmarking.
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