A Leading Exam Platform Scales to 12K Concurrent Users and Saves 40% a Month
India's largest private institution for online examinations runs assessments for thousands of concurrent students. Its previous dedicated server was unreliable and could crash mid-exam, exactly when it mattered most.
Backdrop of the Project
Who knew exams could be taken from the comfort of home? It happened, and for the better. Graduation, post-graduation, and even MBA assessments can now run online, a real boon of digitalization for students and universities alike.
The shift to online education accelerated through COVID-19, and our client saw conversions climb. That client is India's largest private institution for online examinations, home to multiple colleges across the country. This case study covers how RedSwitches delivered the managed bare-metal dedicated servers needed to handle that volume.
Roadblocks
Server efficiency comes at a cost, and our client was already spending heavily while facilitating online exams for 5,000 to 10,000 concurrent users.
Despite that spend, the quality was not there. Critical exams need reliable infrastructure, but their server could crash at any time, the last thing the client needed while growing. Hearing about our work in managed bare-metal dedicated servers, they appointed us as their server partner.
Our Solution
Once we were briefed on the institution and the challenge, we put our best resources on understanding the requirement. Our analysis showed the client needed a clear roadmap for its server, since fluctuating efficiency directly affected the website and risked a high churn rate.
We designed a plan around our managed bare-metal dedicated server expertise. The client needed to seat roughly 5,000 to 10,000 users, so we raised capacity to 12,000 concurrent users.
Our experts built a cluster fronted by a cloud load balancer and set up backup services to ensure seamless business continuity.
Business Benefits
With our managed bare-metal expertise, the client gained affordable server management. Once that efficiency kicked in, they saved around 40% of working capital per month.
With better support and performance, the institution could attract new students and keep scaling its infrastructure.
The Numbers After Deployment
We could never imagine quality at an affordable price, but RedSwitches helped us realize it. Previously we were putting in a lot of investment for too little. Now, six months in, we are getting more efficiency from our processes and servers than we ever had for the price we pay. We opted for a managed bare-metal dedicated server and got an affordable server with extended support. Kudos to team RedSwitches!
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