Ivesia partners with a world-class television network in ensuring quality and reliability of their portal infrastructure
THE CUSTOMER
The Customer is a television network company offering the highest quality entertainment along with information programming content. Their television network reaches more than 98 million households and their movie network reaches more than 70 million households that include almost 4 million unique visitors and 93 million age views to the website on a monthly basis. The Customer is synonymous with providing critically acclaimed, award-winning, original programming that spans movies, miniseries, dramas, comedies and reality series. The network is the top-rated and most watched ad-supported cable network.
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
The Customer’s web portal is rich in features covering TV shows, movies, games, community news, videos, style, entertainment, astrology, sweepstakes, quiz shows and shopping. It has a collection of technologies addressing a variety of components, all integrated in a content management system.
Considering its popularity with consumers, the Customer fully understands the importance of web experience as a way of complementing their TV viewing habits. Therefore, the portal needs to be of superior reliability and performance.
Technology landscape of the portal includes:
- Drupal5 and Drupal6 for the content management system
- Akamai as the CDN server and integration with Brightcove for playing videos
- Proprietary social network and digital media for its online community application
- Multiple sub sites that drive specific traffic
- MySQL community version with a master database, backup database and 2 slave databases used to address load balancing needs
- Memcached server addressing volume requirements, 5 memcached servers are used to speed up dynamic web applications and content delivery.
This provides an idea on the complexity of the infrastructure being maintained with scalability at the core of the infrastructure. The Customer by virtue of being
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