FOXTEL Channels Group

http://www.foxtel.com.au

The FOXTEL Channels Group, which includes FOX8, ARENA, W, Bio, The History Channel, CI Network, The Comedy Channel, A&E, FOX Classics and 111 HITS, has expanded its ongoing relationship with Hostworks, and will continue to do so throughout 2012.

Hostworks has been managing the FOX8 website for the FOXTEL Channels Group since early 2010. In 2012 all channels within the group will be migrating to the Hostworks platform. At present the channels within the Group are hosted by a range of providers but based on the performance of the FOX8 website the decision has been made to consolidate all sites onto a single hosting platform.

The unique Elastic Compute Infrastructure provided by Hostworks lets FOXTEL manage spikes in website traffic easily and scale up its online presence to meet online demand from top-rating shows like the “Australia’s Next Top Model” franchise. Hostworks Content Delivery Service also lets FOXTEL scale the delivery of digital content without the need for additional bandwidth or web servers.

Chuck Smeeton, Head of Digital, FOXTEL Channels Group said, “The service that Hostworks provides for our FOX8 website has let us deal with spikes in web traffic easily. Scaling up our online presence as needed and ensuring we can meet the demand for cross platform content is an essential service. Hostworks make sure we are able to give our website visitors the content they want at all times. Popular shows can result in the traffic to our sites increasing by up to 10 times so being able to deal with this level of traffic at short notice is essential.”

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