Search engine for special gifts live with Jitscale

Posted February 5, 2010 at 12:09 pm by admin in News.

Xkies offers Dutch online shoppers emergency help at choosing great gifts. Jitscale delivers for Xkies the entire IT infrastructure, including 24/7 management of a cloud-computing based infrastructure. Jitscale administers everything (per server, per hour), from operating system to application layer, scaled across multiple clouds. This means Xkies is ensured of maximum performance and security at the best price possible. Jitscale, unique worldwide, was developed by IC&S.

Numbers of visitors are hard to estimate in advance, especially for a newly launched website. This was one of the reasons for Xkies to launch the platform on Jitscale’s cloud computing infrastructure. Quintijn Knepper, Commercial Director at IC&S (former name of Jitscale), on capacity estimation for Xkies.nl: “The Jitscale infrastructure provides sufficient capacity during even the busiest times. This, because additional servers can automatically be scaled, including all server software layers, within a matter of 2 minutes! However, if there the number of visitors is low, the platform automatically scales down to the minimally required servers.” Thanks to Jitscale, financing of over-capacity regarding infrastructure and management is a thing of the past. This means immediate cost savings, so Xkies can inform its clients on great gifts at low costs in both quiet and peak periods.

“Thanks to Jitscale I have no more worries about capacity or management of the internet platform, which means I can focus entirely on the quality of my service” says Annemarie de Leng, initiator, together with Diederik Plug, of Xkies. Xkies visitors can find gifts on the website, based on age, sex and personality of the intended recipient. Clients make their choice at Xkies, and buy the gifts on the websites of the web shops. The Xkies website includes gifts from over 150 web shops, and each day unique gifts are selected and added.