Publishing · 2023
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.
4×Traffic absorbed
0Security incidents
−28%Monthly hosting spend
The problem
Traffic was quadrupling year over year on hosting that had been sized for launch, with no monitoring and an unclear security posture.
What we did
- Right-sized mix of dedicated and virtual capacity
- Content delivery, caching and database tuning before scaling up
- Hardening pass and continuous vulnerability scanning
Built with
LinuxCloudflareMySQLTerraform
Client
Writeups · Publishing
Practices involved
The teams behind it.
Other work
More projects.
Next step
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