Sep, 2001 : Host Ireland Selected by Edco to Provide Student Resource

📅 September 25, 2001 - Dublin's e-xamit.ie and the Educational Company of Ireland (edco.ie) launched their pilot site this week to teachers and students across Ireland. The Web site, which offers free tutorials to students, has been developed for Edco by Mimesis Consulting (mimesis.net).

This project has selected Host Ireland in a competitive approach with otherhosting providers in Ireland.
John Evans, a senior partner with Mimesis Consulting says the project was acomplex one that needed a flexible hosting partner. "We have just launchedthe pilot to teachers and students, but we intend to scale very quickly. Weneeded a flexible hosting company that could meet our needs now but also beable to provide greater capacity when and where we needed it."
E-xamit.ie was launched with two key products: one for Leaving CertificateMaths (higher & ordinary) and one for Junior Certificate English (bothcourses). The site links traditional learning methods with moderntechnology, designed to empower both teachers and students with easy andrapid access to relevant information. While users of the site must firsthave purchased Edco Examination Papers, the online service is free.
The technology allows students to carry out exam revision in a structuredway. The e-xamit.ie site brings students through a preparation stage, asample answer stage and also includes a smart tips stage, all the whilelinking the materials to previous examination papers gathered by Edco. Thefear of the "exam" in Irish education is tackled and the student learns howto cope and respond with this pressure.
"While scalability was an issue, so too was security," says Evans. "Theservice is free to teachers and students who have bought Edco's ExaminationPapers. Therefore we required a simple-to-navigate registration front-endto allow customers to go forward with ease. The Apache server provided byHost Ireland included all the flexibility that we needed. Other ISPs havevery restrictive policies regarding CGI and Perl scripts, only offering thekind of freedom we wanted by means of a physical machine of our own on a Webfarm. The cost of this was not commensurate with the pilot nature of thisproject. Host Ireland had the right technology and they were very flexible."

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