Case Studies

The Bunker provides Ultra-Secure Colocation and Managed Hosted services to the widest possible range of UK enterprises. We work with over 150 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security. Click on the links below to access the case study for each customer.

	Security has always been of prime concern to Moneybookers as most of its business is in payment services to merchants and the value of transactions can be high. Their electronic money transfer system, via email, needs a robust and secure infrastructure. As Moneybookers services have grown in popularity, their requirements have changed. The Bunker’s message was made an attractive solution to Moneybookers Data Backup and Disaster Recovery requirements. View Case Study: Moneybookers.com
	youDevise are a specialist software house offering applications to buy-side and sell-side wholesale finance institutions. Their clients include a consortium of the leading global banks that required a highly secure environment to house their “Trading Ideas” application. youDevise needed a Partner to help them deliver and manage a highly available, secure and cost effective solution to their clients. View Case Study: youDevise
	MoneySavingExpert.com is ranked in the top 3000 highest usage websites in the world. The site gives useful moneysaving tips ranging from holidays to buying houses, run by renowned journalist Martin Lewis. The site is subject to heavy peak surges at irregular intervals and is currently subject to about 1 million visits per month. The site also generates approximately 285,000 emails per month and also contains an online chat forum, currently with approximately 50,000 members. MoneySavingExpert required a Partner to design, build, implement and host a robust and resilient platform to cope with the current load, with an inbuilt capability for future growth. The Bunker designed a fully fault-tolerant solution based on open source software. The site is housed across some of The Bunker’s Ultra Secure Data Centres, up to 30 metres underground. View Case Study: MoneySavingExpert.com
	Databarracks asked The Bunker to work with them as partners to host their Data Centre and become part of their technical and engineering team. They needed a combination of security consultancy, research and development, and bespoke software. The over-riding requirement was for solutions that would ensure customers received a consistent, reliable and secure service. View Case Study: DataBarracks
	In addition to maintaining the register of all .uk domain names, Nominet offer a range of associated services, including renewing registrations every two years and administering transfers of domain names between parties. As such an essential part of the UK’s Internet infrastructure, Nominet have to place Availability and Security at the top of the agenda. When they were seeking a suitable location to house their critical systems for business continuity, that would both meet these high standards whilst still being cost effective, The Bunker was the company who met all the requirements. View Case Study: Nominet
	Envoy Services provides its clients with low cost, cross border transfers, local payment products and advisory services. Using the latest technologies they act as a highly efficient payment gateway for both online and offline businesses that require localised, low cost bill collection and payment execution services from a global market. Security and availability are of paramount importance to Envoy Services so The Bunker’s offering provided the ideal service. The Bunker have designed a solution that takes Envoy’s existing database and web platforms, and integrates our fully managed firewall, monitoring and Intrusion Detection Services into the system. View Case Study: Envoy Services
	Lynchpin is a full service online analytics agency offering web measurement, reporting, analysis and consultancy expertise. With a strong e-business background, Lynchpin helps its clients turn raw web data into online competitive advantage. Lynchpin came to The Bunker for a back up solution. The business places a high value on security and required a highly reliable, simple and manageable backup solution. View Case Study: Lynchpin
	Sitekit was searching for a hosting partner that could fulfil their requirement to accommodate high powered racks housing the latest Blade Technology. With The Bunker’s ex-MOD architecture combined with the original Government 1990’s build specification for the housing of high powered military machines we had no difficulty meeting their needs. View Case Study: sitekit
	APACS, the UK trade association for payments and for those institutions that deliver payment services to customers, approached The Bunker when they needed a highly secure, robust and fully redundant infrastructure to run a new Intelligence Sharing System. Because of the nature of the system, security was of particular importance as was the need for high availability. View Case Study: APACS
	The ICELAB Ltd. specialises in providing small companies with an e-commerce “web shop” to enable them to utilise the mass market of the internet. The ICELAB prides itself on its flexibility, creativity and its ability to engage with clients, understanding their needs, creating a “web shop” window helping them to achieve their overall business objectives. View Case Study: The ICELAB Ltd
	Jellyfish is the UK’s largest agency dedicated to Paid Search. With a team of 50+ full time employees and a sophisticated campaign management, reporting and workflow platform Jellyfish is able to offer a unique, self-financing and risk free solution for running Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns. View Case Study: Jellyfish
	Faced with spiralling colocation costs in London Find-a-Part required a hosting provider that could not only offer high levels of security that are not present in London Data Centres but were also able to be cost effective in the colocation marketplace. With The Bunker’s ex-MOD architecture, combined with our team of technical expert’s on-hand 24/7, we had no difficulty fulfilling their requirements. View Case Study: Find-a-part
	Ace Fancy Dress is one of the top 3 costume retailers in the UK. Their business is 100% web based and they currently receive over 100,000 enquiries per month which increases to 250,000 per month at peak times, such as Halloween and Christmas. Ace Fancy Dress previously deployed the services of a budget web hosting company using a shared server but had some very costly downtimes during peak periods. The Bunker was approached to provide Ace Fancy Dress with a resilient hosting solution that could be scaled up to meet the growing needs of Ace Fancy Dress as their internet traffic increases. View Case Study: Ace Fancy Dress
	Over the past 8 years TheDrinkShop.com have seen rapid growth. They are market leaders and offer the largest choice of wines, beers, spirits and gifts and associated products from any on-line UK supplier. TheDrinkShop.com delivers anywhere in the UK and ship their products to over 40 countries worldwide, to the consumer, corporate and trade sectors. View Case Study: TheDrinkShop.com
	myTsafe provides ultra secure online electronic storage for individual’s personal information and through its sister service, Omneport Central, storage of corporate information. Users of the system must have total confidence that the information held in their accounts is truly secure and accessible only by them. Secondly that information must be retrievable worldwide at any time of the night or day. Security and availability are keystones of the myTsafe philosophy. View Case Study: myTsafe