Interactive soccer quiz Play like a Champion and Nxs Internet make a deal

15-09-2008
Nxs Internet, one of the most important service providers of the Dutch Hosting market, made a deal with Play like a Champion and is responsible for hosting the similar interactive soccer quiz which is a huge online hit. The quiz, which is being managed by the virtual quizmaster Jack van Gelder, is available for free for people who would like to test their soccer knowledge real-time, test themselves and measure with others. Play like a Champion has a database of more than 30.000 soccer related questions, the player who gives the most answers the fasted, wins the game and rises up in the competition.

The organization Play like a champion chooses Nxs Internet due to the fact that this hosting company had recent experience at a similar virtual project and received good feedback at the area of keeping everything up and running of the complicated environment. The soccer quiz is 24 hours a day fully interactive, which is why it was very important for the organization and players that the site is available at any time.

Nxs Internet has five dedicated Linux servers, and different web-application- and dataservers being set-up to guarantee a maximum up-time of the site. In the high days the number of visitors can go up to 30.000, and to make sure that the web servers are load balanced which makes sure that the live games will not break down when there are too many interested people online.

Jasper Swelheim, founder of the website Play like a Champion: Nxs Internet has brought in enormously many ideas for the technical possibilities that this game requires and build a system so that Play like a Champion works perfectly. The quiz is also available thru the AD sport sites, which is why we get more visitors every day. The concept of an online sports quiz has got to the attention of foreign countries; we are talking to different parties at this moment. That is why it is extremely important to us that we are always on line and that we can handle the visitors quantity and we are very happy to say that this has been made possible thanks to Nxs Internet”.

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