Dear Richard Woosley (Radio Nouveau Monde),
We hope you have had a good start to 2013!
We'd like to share with you some exciting news about recent happenings at OSHS Ltd.
The Utopia Project
If you're based in the UK, you may have seen all the huge yellow billboard adverts, television adverts, newspaper ads, and internet ads showcasing a new drama series called "Utopia", which is broadcast on Tuesdays at 10pm on Channel 4.
The TV series has a corresponding website which engages viewers to complete questions for issues raised in the broadcast. As you can imagine, the immediate rush of traffic to the website immediately after being announced at the end of each broadcast is phenomenal, with hundreds of thousands of website visitors peaking within a few minutes!
The digital media agency which developed this website, contracted OSHS Ltd to design the hosting infrastructure behind the website, i.e. to build a highly scalable solution capable of handling the huge amount of traffic at peak. OSHS Ltd designed the architecture and built the infrastructure behind the website, which you can view at http://utopia.channel4.com
The solution involved using the Akamai CDN(content distribution layer) and Amazon Web Services(AWS). The AWS components included elastic load balancing, multiple web caching servers(Varnish), multiple linux web servers(Nginx & Phusion Passenger), multiple application servers, message queues(AWS Simple Queue Service), user session data caching with memcached(AWS Elasticache), and persistent NoSQL data storage(AWS DynamoDB). The OS used on all servers was Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
OSHS Ltd also built a complete development environment, testing environment and pre-production environment to deploy the site following Agile software development methodology, and automated the rolling out of changes via self-written bash scripts. Website source code was branched and managed via GitHub.
If you or your business are considering moving your websites to the cloud and specifically AWS, and would like professional expert advice, please get in touch.
OSHS Ltd becomes an AWS Consulting Partner!
On the back of this recent project OSHS Ltd has attained the status of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner, with our senior engineers getting in depth exposure to AWS functionality. They are also receiving training next week by Amazon solution architects on the exclusive "Architecting with AWS" training course.
So again, should you or someone you know be considering moving services to AWS, please get in touch.
We wish you the best for this year and hope it is successful for us all :)
Regards,
OSHS Customer Services.
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