Gossamer Threads is excited to announce that we’re now the hosting partner for the One Laptop Per Child project, a unique not-for-profit group dedicated to giving children in the developing world better access to education by designing and distributing unique, low-cost laptops. In addition to hosting OLPC, GT is helping them optimize their site performance and monitor server load. Learn more about this great organization after the cut.
Folioplanet gives artists the opportunity to share portfolios of their work quickly and easily. Like many sites built around user accounts, Folioplanet offers its users a variety of account-specific options and upgrades, and wanted to add a coupon system to their site, which was developed around Gossamer Links.
Orthopaedia is a medical research site with a difference: it is built from the breadth of knowledge and expertise of its users – essentially a Wikipedia for orthopaedic medicine. Gossamer Threads was contacted by Orthopaedia after their previous developer had been unable to meet their needs. We quickly realised that there was a lot of work ahead of us.
Blue Sky Footage offers its users a virtual warehouse of a huge variety of high quality stock video footage: over 16 terabytes of it, to be precise. With that in mind, Blue Sky’s business model needs to be able to store and deliver large amounts of content swiftly and securely. We were able to heavily customize their site to streamline and simplify its operations.
Aeroplan is Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program. Enabling millions of members to earn and redeem Aeroplan Miles, Aeroplan works with more than 75 partners in the financial, retail, and travel sectors. Aeroplan’s internal servers process approximately 6000 transactions every day, and an operation of this size needed a reliable and rock-solid hosting solution. In close collaboration with Aeroplan’s techs, Gossamer Host mapped out an extra-redundant server cluster custom-fitted for their internal operations.