They provide business to customer online service hosting politicians’ web sites, email and web outreach/marketing systems. They needed to create a low cost, professional web service with high reliability and sophistication within a company employing only 4 people.
Challenge #1
Their previous colocation servers crashed resulting in lost customersPrimaCloud Solution
Cloud computing service is redundant and self-healing with 5 minute MTTR
Benefit
Experienced no unplanned downtime with cloud computing
Challenge #2
They experience an unpredictable application load and growth rate during electionsPrimaCloud Solution
Utility-billed cloud computing is scalable on demand
Benefit
Their cloud solution increases allocated resources at peak times, and they pay only for resources used
Challenge #3
They need 24x7 service, but only have only one administrator/developerPrimaCloud Solution
Outsourced Operations service manages their data center 24x7
Benefit
Avoided three shifts of full-time administrators
PrimaCloud Services Used
- 11.5 GB RAM
- 2.9 Cores
- 8 Linux Instances
- 852 GB Storage
- 309GB Transfer
- 4 Instances under full operations services
- MySQL DBA services
- 5 instances under server monitoring
- MySQL application monitoring
- 2 Virtual Private Data Centers: production and test
Benefit Summary
- Avoided lost business due to unplanned downtime
- Avoided financial outlay for costly hardware to handle peak computing times
- Saved salary and benefit costs for 3 systems administrators
- Enabled growth to achieve profitability
