Christian Aidhas signed a five-year
web application managed services contract with Attenda to host and
manage its new corporate website.
Christian Aid has an annual income of £92m and its funds are
used to assist those affected by natural and human disasters such
as the Asian Tsunami, earthquakes in Pakistan, the Middle East
crisis and the Sudan relief effort.
Christian Aid is migrating its website presence from a
Linux/Apache-based platform to a "fully resilient" Windows
environment, comprising of clustered
SQL Server 2005 Servers and the
Microsoft's .net framework.
The charity runs four websites and smaller micro sites hosted on
the existing website server. The new
corporate Christian Aid
website has been built on the new hosted web infrastructure,
and the three remaining websites (www.surefish.co.uk,
www.pressureworks.org and www.globalgang.org) will be migrated
across to the platform.
Phill Humphries, infrastructure and operations manager for
Christian Aid, said, "We required a partner aligned with the nature
of our work, providing flexible scalability in the event of a
natural or human disaster when traffic to the site is likely to
increase considerably."