Netvantage Marketing Solutions

Location: Lansing, Michigan

Service Sector: Marketing

Netvantage Marketing Solutions, a high tech marketing firm, hosts all of their web sites at Liquid Web's premium data centers.

Netvantage Marketing Solutions provides search engine optimization for their customers and utilizes Liquid Web's Fully Managed Services & Heroic Support® to keep their clients websites online at all times.

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Solo Cup

The Solo Cup Company is a packaging manufacturer responsible for some of the world’s most iconic and recognizable beverage receptacles. Solo recently entrusted Liquid Web with its online presence, which it relies on for advertising, customer outreach and product launches that are expected to reach a clientele that spans the entire globe and much more.

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American Airlines

American Airlines is a major U.S. airline, serving more than 260 destinations. With an expansive online presence to service its customers with online ticketing, specials as well as important, up-to-the-second information on flights, American Airlines’ hosting needs are varied from moment to moment. The airline was attracted to Liquid Web for the wide scale of services and security features that help to ensure the security and availability of the data it requires to communicate with its patrons and potential customers.

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Home Depot

As the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, continuing to grow Worldwide, Home Depot needs to ensure its availability to a notably vast customer-base. On top of its reach, Home Depot also offers a substantial list of services for its customers. To ensure an important arm of those services remains quickly available amongst its consumers, Home Depot approached us about our High Availability/High Performance options and our 100% uptime guarantee. Eventually finding Liquid Web’s blend of advanced offerings and 24/7/365 availability to be the perfect fit, we have gained yet another satisfied customer.

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National Geographic

The National Geographic Society was founded in 1888 and, since its inception, has used many different forms of media to perform its mission of educating vast audiences about our planet. As it has expanded its educational outreach efforts, National Geographic has explored many innovative uses of technology to more effectively reach learners in and out of the classroom. Liquid Web has stepped up to assist them in this effort by offering a failsafe home for this growing web presence. With Liquid Web’s 24/7/365 Heroic Support and litany of options for flexible expansion, National Geographic can be certain that its important educational efforts are well supported, never interrupted and have substantial room to grow.

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Kelly Services

A Fortune 500 company, Kelly Services has functioned as the most well known and respected name in the Staffing and Temporary Employment industry for over fifty years. Providing employment to over 550,000 employees annually, the company has built a global tier of branch offices which requires a vast network of shared data. We reached out to this company, a fellow Michigan-headquartered business, and offered to help with the expansion of its e-services with a custom-built infrastructure. The resulting partnership has been more than encouraging with Kelly Services already reaping the benefits of Liquid Web’s advanced network, speed and security.

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Kymco USA

A worldwide leader in all terrain vehicles, motorcycles and motor scooters since the 1960’s, KYMCO has recently increased its focus on its United States-based business with KYMCO USA. Having built its strong reputation upon best-in-class quality, KYMCO wanted to ensure its U.S.-based web presence, at KYMCOUSA.com, was hosted by a best-in-class web host. The company’s search did not last long as it was quickly drawn to our world renown Liquid Web Heroic Support^® as well as the uptime and response time guarantees in our Heroic Promise. With managed, dedicated Storm Servers keeping the company’s valuable web presence running smoothly and continuous data backup and recovery handled via our managed Guardian solutions, KYMCO USA can concentrate on its mission to advance its global presence.

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GM/Chevy Volt

As General Motors and Chevy have looked to enhance their user’s social media experience, they have reached out to Liquid Web for our expertise in building the perfect hosting environment for a promotional push. The infrastructure for the social networking home of the automakersÍ hybrid electric, Chevy Volt, was designed and maintained by Liquid Web engineers.

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Hitachi

A multinational conglomerate serving customers worldwide, Hitachi defines the concept of “Enterprise Solutions.” Taking note of Liquid Web’s uptime guarantee, Hitachi hosts highly critical technical support applications with unrivaled peace of mind on Liquid Web servers.

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FedEx

FedEx is a United States-based logistics company specializing in express courier and freight services. Since the company expanded its service offering substantially in 2000, it has rapidly become one of the world’s largest and most well-known shipping companies. This accelerated growth has extended to the company’s electronic infrastructure and put a premium on storage that can be quickly and easily expanded. Liquid Web has the extensive and highly trained on-site staff and 24/7/365 service FedEx needs to grow projects at the pace they require as opposed to the speed at which their hosting company allows.

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Detroit Zoo

DetroitZoo.org is the online home to the Detroit Zoo, one of Michigan’s largest family attractions. The Detroit Zoological Society uses a number of hosting features we offer to keep its public informed of upcoming events, attractions, and give those interested an online link to animals in its conservancy. With a number of online promotions and seasonal traffic, the scalability that Liquid Web offers attracted the Detroit Zoo to our hosting infrastructure, also headquartered in Michigan.

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SWAT

SWAT Environmental, a Lansing-based, radon gas mitigation firm, has trusted their online presence to Liquid Web, using our Server Secure Plus to greatly enhance the security, reliability and compatibility of their server and software. The company has seen significant growth in recent years, so much so that they were recognized in Inc. Magazine’s list of 5000 fastest growing companies. In addition, the company has expanded to include other services, such as soil, water and air technologies. With Liquid Web’s Server Secure Plus saving SWAT Environmental both time and resources, they can focus on further growing their business and rest assured their online presence is protected.

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United Nations

The international arm of worldwide communication, justice and peace has found great benefit in our myriad hosting options. The UN confidently hosts its United Nations Development Programme -- an important effort designed to fight poverty, protect the environment, monitor health programs, prevent crisis and grow national capacity -- on ironclad Liquid Web servers.

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Schlumberger

Schlumberger currently employs over 113,000 people throughout 85 countries and is the world’s largest oilfield services company. Having heard of Liquid Web’s reputation for reliability and overall stability the company turned to Liquid Web while looking for secure Dedicated Servers with core-managed options. Needing enhanced security and scalability due to the changing nature of services coupled with hosting detailed engineering data, we were able to meet all of the company’s requirements (and them some!) in providing them with a comprehensive solution.

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MTV

The kingpin of music television, modern taste and culture maintains a vast web presence. We are proud to host a portion of it via a Dedicated set-up allocated the mtvU content. This important and highly accessed set-up covers MTV programming and applications geared toward college students. Our secure servers and Heroic Support® team work in conjunction to provide the type of responsive service a popular solution such as this requires.

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Redbull

The popular energy drink that has spawned a number of offshoot ventures, hosts a portion of them with the trademark confidence and support we’re known for. Red Bull Records, a collaborative project forged between the soft drink makers and a former vice president of Atlantic Records, is made available via a customized professional set up designed by our talented and highly trained sales engineers.

Music sites often include videos and downloadable content that requires high availability and lightning fast access speeds. To appease a consumer base that grows to expect improved quickness and quality by the day, Red Bull has worked with Liquid Web to find the perfect High Performance solutions for their online music content.

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Porsche

The rapid development in mobile devices has put creating and hosting specialized content designed to be viewed on the go at a premium in many markets. The famed German luxury car manufacturer, Porsche is no exception to this trend. They have used Liquid Web’s unmatched flexibility to launch and deploy mobile applications for new products. In addition to development, Porsche does not hesitate to take advantage of its dedicated team of engineers, on staff at Liquid Web, to ensure stability and scalability whenever needed.

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Motorola

Many of our enterprise customers have taken advantage of how easy it is to launch new applications on our servers as well as quick and painless migrations orchestrated by our Heroic Support® team. Motorola, the multinational telecommunications company noted for its work in the wireless community, has taken advantage of our quickness and flexibility by reserving space for application launches. Liquid Web offers a distinct advantage for this type of hosting by providing solutions that maximize the user’s value for endeavors expected to peak, or designed to only exist for a finite window, over a certain time frame. Additionally, our 24/7/365 Heroic Support® ensures that these applications maintain uptime no matter what.

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Bic

One of the largest manufacturers of stationery items, lighters, and shavers in the world, Bic strives to create products that are simple, reliable, and make their customer’s lives easier. This is something we can understand at Liquid Web^®. Our number one goal is to provide top-notch support through our Heroic Support^® team and ensure our customer’s lives are just as easy. Because of our similar philosophies, we were the natural choice to host the company’s primary online presence at BicWorld.com. With our guaranteed uptime, commitment to excellent support, and 24/7/365 availability, we are perfect match for all of Bic’s hosting needs.

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American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, volunteer-based, health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer through research, education, advocacy and service. Liquid Web is a proud host to various online endeavors launched by this supportive and active charity. This organization's important mission requires airtight hosting solutions and guaranteed uptime. Therefore, we host their data on a series of our highly secure Dedicated Servers, all monitored by our industry leading Heroic Support® team, ensuring the fight against downtime does not distract them from their noble, ongoing battle against cancer.

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Bose

The high-end audio specialist tapped us when it was time to spin off applications to be featured on its base website. We were able to engineer a specialized environment for Bose developers to create, without affecting the company’s direct center of operation. With Liquid Web’s signature flexibility, support, and availability, Bose was able to innovate under the guidance and precision of Heroic Support and top of the line security.

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Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)

A Fortune 500 Company known for financially advising some of the world’s most high profile mergers and acquisitions, D&B requires a level of confidence and privacy rivaled by few. Hosting interactive web content on our Dedicated servers, D&B’s administrators rest easy with the assurance that their critical content is protected and our industry leading Heroic Support® team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to assist them immediately with anything they may require.

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Symantec

Symantec is currently the world’s largest maker of computer security software, noted for its Norton software brand. With our iron clad security features, a union between Symantec and Liquid Web makes perfect sense. Liquid web hosts an important step in the Symantec registration process, verifying users through its advanced VeriSign Authentication Services, on highly monitored and consistently backed up Dedicated Servers in our proprietary data centers.

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Loreal

As the world’s largest cosmetics and beauty company, L’Oreal needs to maintain a powerful online presence and provide a number of applications to its users in order to maintain its lauded status. While utilizing a number of different formats for data storage, L’Oreal has found that Liquid Web’s power and reliability has made it an irreplaceable asset to the company’s promotional efforts.

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Suave

One of the world’s most profitable producers of shampoo, lotion, soap and deodorant products, Suave has found great value in our customized packages. The company worked with our engineers to coordinate its hosting needs with a promotional campaign it launched toward a specialized market. With the help of our highly trained Heroic Support team, we ensured that all systems remained operating at peak fidelity for Suave’s advertising campaign.

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Azmara Club Cruises

Azamara Club Cruises is a brand of the Royal Caribbean Cruise line that offers upscale amenities to vacationers. Noted for its unique features, Azamara is one of the most sought out cruise lines for those seeking a luxury experience. With a feature-rich web presence that is responsible for the marketing and sales of its promotions, Azamara came to Liquid Web for our reputation as a versatile hosting provider. Our SLA allows us to offer guaranteed uptime for Azamara’s site. Meanwhile, our many features and flexible options allowed the company to find exactly what it needed to secure its order process and maintain its database.

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Aunt Jemima

Even the famous syrup icon can benefit from guaranteed uptime. We were of critical assistance during a large scale advertising campaign which required flexible bandwidth. Working with Liquid Web allowed for maximum value as the company was able to avoid paying for more bandwidth and availability than was required to keep the promotion up and running smoothly.

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Public Radio International - PRI.org

"The most recent version of pri.org was built around a content management system that required a dedicated hosting solution and a number of specific server requirements in order to function efficiently. Liquid Web's tech-savvy sales staff, fantastic 24/7 support, and competitive hosting packages made a perfect match for our needs, all at a price that fit within the budget of a non-profit organization."

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Michigan State University

Large Universities such as Michigan State often have content allocated to their own data centers. Even with large scale, in-house storage, the University has found great value in Liquid Web’s varied services and solutions. Hosting an important and frequently updated page dedicated to the University’s College of Human Medicine on our Dedicated Servers, the University is guaranteed not only uptime and security, but also the unrivaled expertise of our Heroic Support® team.

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Boxee - boxee.tv

Boxee is the world’s first “social” media center. Boxee gives your computer a TV-like interface to enjoy your personal videos, music, and photos as well as content from the Internet like Hulu, CNN.com, ABC.com, Last.fm, Flickr, etc. Users can share information about what they are watching with friends, and even post content to their existing social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Boxee uses Liquidweb’s dedicated hosting and network services to enable their users to access a variety of high-quality media sources such as Hulu.com and CBS.com. When asked about our Liquid Web Heroic Support, COO Tom Sella responds “I have never received this level of support from anyone, let alone a hosting service”.

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Dooce

The blogging arm of writer Heather Armstrong, Dooce.com has become one of the web’s most notable and highly visited blogs. Covering topics ranging from motherhood, to growing up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to dealing with depression and beyond, all in an insightful, humorous, and (sometimes even) controversial manner, Armstrong’s blog has become so popular that it even surfaced as the answer to a Jeopardy question.

Frequent mentions on highly visible media networks attributes a highly fluctuating nature to the traffic Dooce receives. We devised a uniquely customized series of Managed Dedicated Servers along with a Storage Area Network (SAN) and a MySql database to make it remarkably easy for Dooce to scale up or down in anticipation of spikes in traffic.

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Idaho State University

Idaho State University is a public University established in 1901, with more than 15,000 students currently enrolled. The University entrusts Liquid Web with a great deal of its online presence. As ISU’s online offerings have grown, we have been able to continue deploying Dedicated Servers as they have required them without so much as a hiccup in service. Additionally, the University has made great use of our security services, utilizing various features -- such as PCI Compliance -- to ensure the fidelity of its online transactions.

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Traction - A Creative Studio

“The value that Liquid Web brings Traction on a day to day basis is priceless, in that we rely on vendors every day to produce the kind of quality products that we do. I know that there’s somebody walking around our server every day. I know that if something were to happen ... we could get a hold of somebody and get it resolved instantaneously.”

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OCS Solutions Inc - ocssolutions.com

OCS Solutions Inc is an Internet Technology Consultant with over a thousand customers. OCS Solutions specializes in Web Design, Hosting and Development. OCS Solutions chooses Liquid Web because we have the "highest quality network and servers, and the ability to customize software installations. The Liquid Web network is amazing. We rarely have any issues, and when we do, they are addressed immediately. The 100% up-time guarantee on the network makes the LW network a critical part of our business."

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Optimal Health RSQ - optimalhealthrsq.com

Optimal Health RSQ is an online supplement retailer that provides help for personal training issues surrounding weight management, heart health and diabetes. Optimal Health utilized the Migration Team at Liquid Web to transfer fifty websites and 8 databases from their old hosting provider to new Liquid Web dedicated server. Optimal Health was amazed by the seamless and flawless migration with no down time and without any glitches.

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