Case Study: Newport City Homes cuts page load time by 18 seconds and boosts user experience with Edgenexus ALB-X

Newport City Homes - Customer Case Study

Newport City Homes, which serves over 10,000 residents, decided to bring its website hosting in‑house and build a SharePoint platform to increase functionality for users. During testing they found Windows NLB unable to meet performance and scalability needs — homepage downloads were taking around 20 seconds — so Newport City Homes evaluated alternatives and chose Edgenexus and its ALB‑X solution to replace Windows NLB.

Edgenexus deployed two ALB‑X Virtual Appliances on‑premise, a quick install (up and running in under an hour) that delivered immediate benefits: an 18‑second reduction in page load time, improved resilience and scalability, simpler management and better end‑user experience. Edgenexus’s ALB‑X also provided advanced traffic control and application acceleration, giving Newport City Homes the performance and confidence to roll the solution out to other services.

Newport City Homes

Owen Barrett

Information Systems Manager