Case Study: Virgin Wines achieves stable, high‑uptime e‑commerce performance with Navisite

Finding a Reliable E-Commerce Site Hosting Provider

Virgin Wines, a UK online boutique wine merchant established under the Virgin brand and independent since 2013, sells exclusive wines and depends on its e‑commerce platform for growth. After a management buyout the company needed a scalable, reliable hosting partner because a small in‑house IT team could not guarantee uptime or handle peak loads while targeting rapid customer growth.

Navisite delivered a customized managed hosting solution—migrating the site, configuring WebLogic 11g, implementing clustering, redundancy and proactive monitoring scripts for URL/CPU/memory—and acted as an extension of Virgin Wines’ IT team. The outcome was stable, high‑availability performance through peak periods (including the company’s busiest July), faster support response and a scalable platform that supports ongoing growth.

Virgin Wines

David Wyatt

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