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Case Study: FlightAware achieves fast, reliable European expansion with Pulsant colocation services
A Pulsant Case Study
Hosting helps flight service take off in Europe
FlightAware, America’s leading online flight-tracking service, needed local European infrastructure to launch a high‑profile, high‑demand multilingual site. Its US datacentres were too remote to deliver the performance, availability and local support required by European users and advertisers, so FlightAware selected Pulsant for colocation after evaluating 12 providers because Pulsant offered a bespoke, high‑service solution.
Pulsant colocated FlightAware’s Unix servers in its Enterprise Class datacentres near Heathrow, providing fully switched Gigabit connectivity with bursting to 5Gbps+, redundant power, 24/7 availability and a strong SLA and failover capability. As a result, FlightAware now offers free flight tracking across Europe in 15 languages, serves over 750,000 European users, manages European operations from the US without extra local staff, and hosts mobile and data services supported by Pulsant.
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FlightAware
Daniel Baker
CEO