Lake Quincy Media chose ORCS Web to provide a managed hosting solution with extremely high levels of uptime, the ability to scale with growth and traffic bursts, and expert support to provide fast and professional assistance for their technology needs.

Lake Quincy Media LLC has developed a product that is considered critical not only to themselves but to many other websites. Their online application is a pooled banner advertising, tracking, and management system. The system provides banner advertising for over fifty Microsoft technology community sites, currently handling around 90 million advertisements per month. Extremely high levels of uptime and a vastly scalable solution are very important to both Lake Quincy Media and their clients since even a short issue would be noticed quickly and impact many sites.

ORCS Web, a managed hosting provider specializing in the support of Microsoft technologies, has architected and deployed, and continues to provide managed support for, a fully-redundant webfarm front-end for Lake Quincy’s web applications. This webfarm consists of Microsoft Windows Servers running Internet Information Services (IIS). Challenges surrounding content replication, synchronization, and high-availability have also been addressed by utilizing best practices developed during ORCS Web’s 12 years hosting on Microsoft platforms.

The Lake Quincy applications also make extensive use of Microsoft’s SQL Server database platform to provide scalable and reliable data storage services. Every one of the 90 million advertisement displays interacts with the database to handle a variety of transactional functions. The extensive use under high-volume, running without noticeable latency or any service interruption, demonstrates the capabilities of the deployed architecture.

Aside from the architecture development and deployment, ORCS Web also provides fully-managed services for Lake Quincy so they never need to worry about anything related to the administration of their hosting platform.

Steve Smith, CIO of Lake Quincy Media LLC, when commenting on his services experience during his eight year relationship with ORCS Web, notes “If it's important that your site run error-free, and you want to spend your time on other things and let your hosting provider take care of the hosting for you, then trust ORCSWeb.”

ORCS Web prides itself in providing the best service and support possible in the Microsoft managed hosting market. They also strive to continually excel in overall experience and expertise with multiple staff that have been recognized as Microsoft MVPs, written both articles and books, and spoken at popular technology conferences.