Christian Aid appoints Attenda as its hosting partner for new website

London -- Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that it has signed a five year Web Application Managed Services contract with Christian Aid to host and manage their new corporate website.

Christian Aid, one of the largest international development charities in the UK, has an annual income of £92 million. The funds raised are used to assist those affected by natural and human disasters such as the Asian Tsunami, earthquakes in Pakistan, the Middle East crisis and Sudan relief effort as well as campaigning to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and climate change.

Christian Aid are migrating their website presence from a Linux/Apache based platform to a fully resilient Windows environment comprising clustered SQL Server 2005 Servers and Microsoft’s .NET framework.

The charity runs 4 websites and smaller micro sites hosted on the existing website server. The new corporate website www.christianaid.org.uk has been built on the new hosted web infrastructure and the 3 remaining websites www.surefish.co.uk, www.pressureworks.org and www.globalgang.org will be migrated across to the new platform.

This was a highly competitive bid in which Attenda was delighted to win and contribute to the future efforts of Christian Aid.  Phill Humphries, Infrastructure and Operations Manager for Christian Aid commented “It was important for Christian Aid to select a partner who truly understood our requirements and could deliver high levels of security and availability for our new site. We also 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. We awarded the contract to Attenda as they ticked all our boxes and demonstrated best value for the service”.

As a charity, Christian Aid was also able to take advantage of Attenda’s status of an Accredited Catalist Supplier, contracting with Attenda through this route.