This company was created with the vision of becoming a web-based multimedia center accessible via any cell phone or computer. Based offshore, they needed a reliable, scalable point of presence in the US, with administrators in the same time zone who could keep the site up and running. Sudden peaks of usage would overload underpowered systems, ruining the user’s experience.
Challenge #1
Their previous cloud based hosting was slow and not scalablePrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud cloud service scales from .01 to 100s of servers, reliably
Benefit
Their service kept pace with sudden spikes in user demand to 200,000 users and more
Challenge #2
They did not know how to optimize their application to take advantage of the cloudPrimaCloud Solution
Virtual Private Data Center Paradigm plus full operations management
Benefit
Their application runs unchanged in the PrimaCloud cloud
Challenge #3
Startup financing demands no upfront investment in operationsPrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud enables pay-as-you-go computing and operations
Benefit
All hosting and operations charges are an operating expensed
PrimaCloud Services Used
- 17.9 GB RAM
- 4.5 Cores
- 14 Linux Instances
- 4652 GB Storage
- 5048 GB Transfer
- 12 Instances under full operations services
- Weekly production team meeting attendance
- Postgres DBA services
- 13 instances under server monitoring
- PostgreSQL and Tomcat application monitoring
- PostgreSQL DB tuning
- Java Performance Consulting
Benefit Summary
- Company can grow at any rate without service performance problems
- Company writes application for traditional colocated hardware, and PrimaCloud deploys it to the cloud with minimal downtime
- Best in class data center and bandwidth provide exceptional user experience without need for an expensive CDN
- Expensed pay-as-you-go cost model preserves precious startup capital
