An eLearning Leader Cuts Spend 30% Moving Off AWS
An assessment and eLearning platform was growing fast, but hosting and infrastructure management were eating its margins. Moving to managed bare-metal dedicated servers brought predictable costs back.
Backdrop of the Project
COVID-19 changed the face of education for the better. Physical instruction has its limits, and digital learning became the new normal, driving a sharp rise in eLearning providers turning their innovation into real revenue.
Our client saw the opportunity in eLearning well before the pandemic and launched an assessment and learning platform, built to help institutes, students, universities, corporates, and retailers reach their true growth potential. That noble goal soon became an interesting problem to solve.
Roadblocks
As the platform took off across students, schools, universities, colleges, and corporate training centers, a large chunk of capital was going straight to hosting bills, blocking the client from scaling.
On top of that, heavy spend on infrastructure management dried up profit. The client kept having to buy new hardware and data center capacity, so money meant for building value for end users was consumed by hardware maintenance instead.
Our Solution
Recognizing our track record in managed hosting and dedicated servers, the client trusted RedSwitches with managed bare-metal dedicated servers. We analyzed the requirements and put our best infrastructure engineers on the problem.
Because scalability and uptime were the priority, we built a high-availability cluster on managed bare metal, grouping servers across different services and applications to cut downtime and improve reliability.
The managed bare-metal servers unlocked high-availability VMware virtualization, and our engineers handled the full setup and management, with strong performance at an affordable price.
Business Benefits
Moving past AWS to RedSwitches managed dedicated servers felt like a big step, but the results spoke for themselves.
With our hosting and server management, the client cut overall expenditure by 30%. With less capital tied up in technicalities, the overhead passed on to end users could finally be contained.
Fixed, affordable server pricing, with no extra management cost and no migration stress, gave the client a renewed competitive edge on price.
The Numbers After Deployment
It has been over a year since we moved our chaotic infrastructure to RedSwitches managed bare-metal dedicated servers. This wasn't an easy decision, moving from a top hosting company to a lesser-known managed provider, and we were hesitant at first. But their portfolio and references spoke highly of their dedication, so we switched. Since then it has been an amazing experience: the support staff is responsive and always goes the extra mile. We now plan together and execute together, which helps us curb overheads and outpace our competitors.
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