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Case Study: Optimising Chester Zoo's Website

Wild ambitions expertly crafted

Published January 2017

In August 2014, a new television show, 'Our Zoo' - based on the history of Chester Zoo and its progression over the last eight decades - was launched. While it was initially assumed the zoo's website could handle an inevitable increase in traffic, it was soon discovered that the its on-site bandwidth became quickly saturated when a couple of thousand visitors hit the website. Migrating to a single dedicated server with UKFast, which benefits from a dedicated firewall and 1GB of guaranteed bandwidth, Chester Zoo's website now runs expertly.

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