24 Symbols had a cloud hosting provider specializing in PHP and Ruby on Rails as the latter was the language with which they worked.
The initial sizing of the platform was based on three servers, two load-balanced front-end web servers, working on a master database.
Issues:
Inflexible platform: Did not allow control or agile development of the equipment
Lack of support: Payment service based in the USA
Unbalanced budget: Monthly costs were a surprise at the end of the month, varying considerably from one period to another
Lack of functionality: Inability to self-size in accordance with demand.
Solution:
Gigas conducted a study of their situation and drafted a contingency plan creating a new structure and carrying out the migration process effortlessly in less than AN HOUR AND A HALF!
Benefits:
A focus on business
Platform stability and flexibility
Local support and in Spanish
Advanced technology
Satisfied users.
Cost control.
International coverage.
Complete control of the platform.
Previous situation:
Our client had a data center located within their own facilities, consisting of multiple physical servers.
Issues:
High overheads (electricity, staff, internet, etc.)
Difficulty in getting new investment to provide more resources
Constant technical problems that distracted them from their core business (system crashes, falls, loss of information, management of backups, etc.)
Rigid platform that did not allow scalability of resources, when clients were lost, the platform was underutilized
Fear of possible theft, natural disasters, supply problems, loss of information, etc
Solution:
After analyzing their situation, our client chose to migrate from a dedicated platform to a gigas cloud platform consisting of a 48 GB Cloud Datacenter with 22 TB SATA storage, VPN, Load Balancers, VLAN and Advanced Backup.
Benefits:
Better balanced accounts (Capex to Opex conversion)
High-availability system with load balancer
Option to auto-scale to fit business needs
Complete platform control from a simple control panel
Conversion of an in-house data center to one with Tier III rating (including all security measures it involves)
Advanced Backup for information retrieval if necessary
24/7 support and customer service
Immediate implementation
Infrastructure as a Service: Gigas takes full responsibility for technical problems, system failures, etc.