PKR.com quids in thanks to new traffic management system

Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Monday 10 May 2010 at 17:51:00

Software from Zeus helps the company to reduce bandwidth costs and risk of
outages

Online gambling site
PKR.com
has introduced traffic management software that it claims will lower bandwidth
costs for web traffic by more than 50 per cent per annum.

The software, from
Zeus, also helps
the company reduce the risk of outages.

The site has to be online and monitored 24/7, but owing to the
unpredictability in online gamblers' habits, there is no obvious peak or quiet
time so the company has to maintain a rate of monitoring as if it were
experiencing a peak constantly.

?We're dealing with real money so we have to guarantee reliability and
security all the time. Our business requires more attention 24 hours a day than
most other web sites,? explained Jeremy Longley, CTO at PKR.com.

The company also manages scalability related to growth in traffic. The gaming
site launched just three and a half years ago and in March this year it saw 1.61
billion hits.

PKR.com's legacy traffic management software, which was based on Windows, was
struggling to cope, said Longley. Zeus, however, will be able to scale up its
services to manage the company?s rapid growth.

Additionally, Longley claimed that the alternative traffic management
solutions were hardware-based and a lot more expensive than Zeus's
software-based solution.

Zeus Traffic Manager supports a forum for the gambling community. It also
allowed PKR.com to streamline the experience for customers when they made
deposits or withdrawals on account areas of the site.

Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2262768/pkr-com-traffic-management