Flight metasearch service Skyscanner has appointed Iomart Hosting to handle its cloud hosting requirements.
The company has moved to the cloud to relieve pressure on its servers and better manage the 14 million visitors it receives every month.
Iomart now hosts all of Skyscanner's domains globally and the service has enabled the company to rapidly expand with access to additional server resources within minutes.
Iomart says it has seen an increase in travel companies looking to move to cloud-based hosting in the past couple of years and now looks after 15 companies in the sector including onhotels and Stagecoach.
According to a spokesperson, travel is ahead of other industries when it comes to the cloud and attributes this in part to the purely online nature of many companies.
She adds that cloud hosting also means increased flexibility for travel companies helping them manage peaks in demand.