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Hosting that scaled with a growing publisher — without a rebuild

We moved a growing content business onto a mix of dedicated and virtual servers sized for current load with headroom for growth, and hardened the environment around client data.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity

The problem

Traffic was quadrupling year on year on hosting that had been sized for launch, with no monitoring and an unclear security posture.

What we did

  1. 01Right-sized mix of dedicated and virtual capacity
  2. 02Content delivery, caching and database tuning before scaling up
  3. 03Hardening pass and continuous vulnerability scanning

The result

  • 4×
    Traffic absorbed
  • 0
    Security incidents
  • −28%
    Monthly hosting spend
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Built with

  • Linux
  • Cloudflare
  • MySQL
  • Terraform

Practices involved

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