They provide online card games with a user community, tournaments, and player/viewer subscriptions. They have no idea of how fast they will grow, and uptime is very important to maintain a good reputation in the gaming community. They have a combination of Linux and Windows machines requiring high I/O performance, which ruled out most Cloud providers
Challenge #1
They have an unpredictable growth rate with potential for large spikes in traffic on weekendsPrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud’s automatic scaling and pay-as-you-go service
Benefit
Gaming systems are added as necessary to meet demand
Challenge #2
Uptime is crucial to their business modelPrimaCloud Solution
Redundant networks, self-healing hardware, and Monitoring
Benefit
They achieve 4-nines of reliability (subject to software reliability)
Challenge #3
Responsiveness requires fast Linux and Windows serversPrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud delivers enterprise-grade compute and storage speeds
Benefit
Their service matches performance & budget expectations
PrimaCloud Services Used
- 13 GB RAM
- 14 GB Reserved
- 6.7 Cores Peak
- 5 Linux / 8 Windows Instances
- 350 GB Storage
- 850GB Transfer
- 13 Instances under full operations services
- Weekly production team meeting attendance
- SQL Server DBA services
- 13 instances under server monitoring
- IIS, SQL Server, MySQL application monitoring
- User experience monitoring (transactional performance)
- Application-controlled scaling from 1 to 8 Windows instances to meet demand
Benefit Summary
- Auto-scaling plus usage-based charges result in large savings and great performance
- High uptime keeps their reputation good while they are growing the business
- Labor costs are low by using PrimaCloud operations services
- Virtual Data Centers adjust to application changes over time
