Ace Fancy Dress Chooses The Bunker to secure their e-commerce hosting platform

Added: (Fri Aug 01 2008)

Pressbox (Press Release) - The Bunker, providers of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services is pleased to announce leading costume retailer Ace Fancy Dress has chosen to use The Bunker to provide them with a highly available and secure e-commerce hosting platform.

Ace Fancy Dress’s business is delivered entirely via the internet and they currently receive over 100,000 enquiries per month which can increase to 250,000 per month at peak times.

In the past Ace Fancy Dress had used the services of a budget web hosting company using a shared server but suffered from costly downtimes during peak periods. The Bunker was approached to provide Ace Fancy Dress with a resilient hosting solution that could be scaled up to meet the growing needs of Ace Fancy Dress as their internet traffic increases.

The Bunker initially provided Ace Fancy Dress with a managed web server with a hardened FreeBSD Operating System and dedicated bandwidth. As Ace Fancy Dress have grown, so have their technology requirements, they have quadrupled their bandwidth, added an additional database server with a Microsoft file server to their system as well as a Managed Firewall and a 1000Mbps switch with managed daily back-ups.

Toby Spoerer, Ace Fancy Dress Managing Director comments “As far as web hosting goes The Bunker is as good as it gets, they have provided me with expert advice and provided me a scalable solution to meet my growing business needs”.

About The Bunker
The Bunker delivers secure managed hosting and data centre solutions from within Europe’s most secure data centre.

Our Data Centres, which are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London, are ex-military Nuclear Bunkers purpose built to house the UK's air defence systems. We run 24/7/365 and our NOC monitors systems both nationally and internationally and is staffed around the clock by system and network engineers and security staff.

Our technical leaders are recognised experts in security and cryptography, renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 accredited and we are a Microsoft Gold Partner. We use Open Source software where appropriate as we believe it can offer great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between our sites and the Internet.

The Bunker works with over 130 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security.

Our service is proactive, high quality, sometimes innovative, but always practical, responsive and secure. We never forget the enormous trust our clients vest in us. As an organisation we understand that our success relies upon our reputation and our reputation is earned by continuing to fulfil this trust and afford peace of mind.

The Bunker Protocol™
All Bunker-based applications are protected by The Bunker Protocol™, our proprietary, Ultra* Secure process framework that includes:

* Military-Grade Data Centres – in our underground bunker outside the M25 in Kent and our mirror facility in Newbury, both protected by integrated processes for physical, digital and human security
* Hardened Source™ – Our unique combination of open source and proprietary technologies built and integrated in-house from the source code up
* Tierless Support™ – no ‘first tier helpdesk’; tierless support – direct 24/7 access to qualified hands-on support teams