BidAbode Case Study
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BACKGROUND BidAbode (www.bidabode.com) is an online real estate auction site that enables prospective buyers across the country to make real-time bids on discounted properties. Their business depends on having a hosting provider whose technology is reliable enough to handle these resource-intensive auctions without the risk of downtime. THE PROBLEM When BidAbode began preparing to launch their site, they signed up for hybrid cloud hosting with a major hosting provider. But even in development, it soon became clear that they were paying for expensive infrastructure they didn’t need. They wanted to find a more cost-effective hosting provider who would also offer a 100% uptime guarantee. Given the nature of their site, downtime after launch would cost them money, customers, and valuable marketing dollars. BidAbode approached Hostway and a few other hosting companies to determine which provider's hybrid services would be the most reliable and cost-effective for their startup. THE SOLUTION After researching various hosting companies, BidAbode chose Hostway’s hybrid cloud offering to support its growth on a Linux platform. They were happy with the scalability of Hostway’s product and were doubly pleased to learn that Hostway was significantly more cost-effective than the competition. “Our real-time auctions are resource-intensive, and Hostway was able to provide the scalable infrastructure we needed,” said BidAbode CTO Jared Gallardo. “In fact, Hostway has provided an answer for every need we have identified, at a price point that is by a good margin the most compelling among the several companies we considered based on our requirements.” BidAbode set up two dedicated servers with Hostway, as well as nine Linux 8 GB VMs on Hostway’s Hyper-V cloud platform. CONCLUSION In the five months since BidAbode has been with Hostway, they have experienced no downtime. Hostway’s hybrid solution has not only provided them with the reliability they need to conduct their real-time auctions, it has also reduced their hosting costs to a fraction of what they initially paid. BidAbode CASE STUDY Scalability, Reliability and Savings: WHY BIDABODE LEFT THEIR OLD HYBRID HOSTING PROVIDER FOR HOSTWAY Hostway Corporation • 100 N. Riverside Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 • 866-HOSTWAY • www.hostway.com Hostway has provided an answer for every need we have identified, at a price point that is the most compelling among the several companies we considered 9 Linux 8GB VMs on Hostway’s Hyper-V Cloud Platform Real-time Real Estate Auction Across the Country on Discounted Properties
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BACKGROUNDBidAbode (www.bidabode.com) is an online real estate auction site that enables prospective buyers across the country to make real-time bids on discounted properties. Their business depends on having a hosting provider whose technology is reliable enough to handle these resource-intensive auctions without the risk of downtime.
THE PROBLEMWhen BidAbode began preparing to launch their site, they signed up for hybrid cloud hosting with a major hosting provider. But even in development, it soon became clear that they were paying for expensive infrastructure they didn’t need.
They wanted to find a more cost-effective hosting provider who would also offer a 100% uptime guarantee. Given the nature of their site, downtime after launch would cost them money, customers, and valuable marketing dollars. BidAbode approached Hostway and a few other hosting companies to determine which provider's hybrid services would be the most reliable and cost-effective for their startup.
THE SOLUTIONAfter researching various hosting companies, BidAbode chose Hostway’s hybrid cloud offering to support its growth on a Linux platform. They were happy with the scalability of Hostway’s product and were doubly pleased to learn that Hostway was significantly more cost-effective than the competition.
“Our real-time auctions are resource-intensive, and Hostway was able to provide the scalable infrastructure we needed,” said BidAbode CTO Jared Gallardo. “In fact, Hostway has provided an answer for every need we have identified, at a price point that is by a good margin the most compelling among the several companies we considered based on our requirements.”
BidAbode set up two dedicated servers with Hostway, as well as nine Linux 8 GB VMs on Hostway’s Hyper-V cloud platform.
CONCLUSIONIn the five months since BidAbode has been with Hostway, they have experienced no downtime. Hostway’s hybrid solution has not only provided them with the reliability they need to conduct their real-time auctions, it has also reduced their hosting costs to a fraction of what they initially paid.
BidAbode CASE STUDY
Scalability, Reliability and Savings: WHY BIDABODE LEFT THEIR OLD HYBRID HOSTING PROVIDER FOR HOSTWAY
Hostway Corporation • 100 N. Riverside Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 • 866-HOSTWAY • www.hostway.com
Hostway has provided an answer for every need we have identified, at a price point that is the most compelling among the several companies we considered
9Linux 8GB VMs on Hostway’sHyper-V Cloud Platform
Real-time Real Estate Auction Across the Country on Discounted Properties
BidAbode CASE STUDY
Hostway Hybrid Cloud Platform for BidAbodeFLEXCLOUD/HYBRID NETWORK OVERVIEW
Hostway Corporation • 100 N. Riverside Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 • 866-HOSTWAY • www.hostway.com
Hybrid Cloud Platform
FC Load Balancer
FC Firewall
FlexLink Private VLAN
FlexLink
VPN Firewall
VPN Firewall
Cisco ASA 5505Firewall
SAN Storage Cluster Dedicated Configuration
Switching Layer
Non-Hyper-V Traffic
VPN/Hybrid FC Traffic
Dedicated VPN/Firewall
Public Traffic
Private/Storage Traffic
HA Connection
FlexCloud Server Cluster
BidAbode’s Virtual Servers
FlexCloud Environment
Dedicated Environment
StorageDB1DB2
