Late in 2001, Vortex Media Group found that their flagship website, VWVortex.com, was bouncing off of the ceiling of their webhosting and internet application environment. The primary impairing factor was the discussion forum software. They had tried two other discussion forums systems and neither was able to handle the increasing growth of the site which at the time was adding an average of 70 new user registrations per day. Chronic down time and every slowing page loads were keeping the site from reaching its full potential. Their web environment could not scale to the level of success the site was striving to reach. The challenge was to find a completely new hosted environment which could scale without compromising performance and stability.

RelyNet created a separate environment especially for the Vortex Media Group websites and forums. All existing member and post data was imported from the old message board software into LiveTopic. Moving to the powerful LiveTopic platform immediately fixed all of the performance issues that Vortex Media Group was experiencing before. VMG has been able to make use of LiveTopic Content Sharing which allows user and forum data to be shared between multiple LiveTopic sites. The VMG message board network which consists of seven high traffic message boards that share 325,000 users and over 35,000,000 posts. RelyNetÕs proprietary search technology instantly generates accurate search results that will scale with the growth of their sites. RelyNet continually adds new features to LiveTopic without compromising security or performance.

Since VMG chose to move their network to RelyNet, they have experienced steady 5% to 7% growth each month and maintained a fast and feature rich experience for their members.