Rural Workspace
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What We Did
We were approached by RUPC Ltd. in April 2010, with an initial brief to develop an online property directory. As the idea was still in it's infancy, we worked with RUPC to develop the site structure and explore revenue models, which we developed over several weeks into a detailed project specification.
Working from our specification, which covered both the front and back-end features of the website, we began the build of the site. Over the next three months, Testled built the application, sourced design work, and the site entered it's beta phase in July 2010, to excellent feedback from several of RUPC Ltd.'s existing clients who signed up to the site within a week of it launching.
RuralWorkspace.co.uk is built on our own fully-owned and managed dedicated server platform, and we provisioned application, database and media servers. The application itself is written in Django, using MySQL as a data store. The site makes heavy use of Yahoo! YQL for the large amount of geocoding required, with the media files stored on Amazon S3. This gives RuralWorkspace.co.uk a combination of scalability and stability which cannot be matched by using a fully cloud-based server infrastructure.