Digital Island to Provide Web Hosting for Major League Baseball

📅 July 4, 2001 - Web hosting service provider Digital Island (digitalisland.net) announced this week that Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP (mlb.com), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, has selected the company to provide managed hosting and content delivery services for the official league Web site.

Digital Island says that MLBAM, which manages the MLB.com Web site and each of the 30 individual club sites, chose Digital Island's Internet infrastructure services to help ensure a fast, reliable and secure online experience for the one million sports fans that visit the baseball portal daily.
Using Digital Island's PrivateHost managed hosting service and Footprint content delivery network, MLBAM is able to provide sports fans with the most efficient Web site containing comprehensive baseball information. The added reliability and performance enables MLB.com to provide faster, guaranteed delivery of content.
The site includes quite a few advanced media and database features that demand a solid hardware backup, including news headlines, pitch-by-pitch enactment of games, live scores, information on player injuries, transactions and fantasy games. The site also offers enhanced search capabilities of team and player statistics so fans can select and compare statistics on different players and find out information such as Alex Rodriguez's batting average against left-handed pitchers on grass -- Answer: .382.
"Digital Island's hosting and content delivery services provide us with a robust and secure environment that is required to operate a reliable and profitable Web site in the highly-competitive online sports arena," said Bob Bowman, president and chief executive officer of MLBAM. "Baseball fans depend on MLB.com to obtain information about their favorite teams and Digital Island is helping us deliver and manage a tremendous amount of content critical to making that happen."
"Digital Island is excited to be part of baseball history, providing MLBAM with a scalable and reliable outsourced solution to help provide an excellent end user experience and drive online revenue for one of the most exciting e-business sports sites on the Web," said Ruann Ernst, chairman and chief executive officer, Digital Island. "MLB made the right decision by selecting Digital Island's infrastructure to manage their content and support the surging volume of fan traffic and transactions on MLB.com."
MLBAM stores content and applications in Digital Island's secure data centers that are maintained 24X7 and contain back-up and disaster recovery systems to ensure the safety and availability of content. When baseball fans request pages from MLB.com, Digital Island's Footprint content delivery service speeds up the download by storing content closer to the users in servers at the edge of the network. Web queries are seamlessly directed to the optimal performing server nearby through Digital Island's patented Best Distributor Selection technology.

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