Glasstire Case Study: Moving to a Secure Cloud Environment with iland

Glasstire, a small, not-for-profit company offering information, services and social media to the art community, had been hosting its website with a small provider for years. However, the organization had experienced numerous performance issues that caused the site to go down, along with other ongoing availability issues. The security of the site was also inadequate, as it was hacked into and infused with a Trojan spam generator and numerous illicit redirects. The hacking was so invasive that the entire site had to be rebuilt. The new website developer wanted to run the new site on a Debian (Linux OS). Glasstire also wanted the ability to grow over time and handle increasing traffic as well as add new services such as a dedicated email service. Finally, as a result of the company’s previous issues, it wanted a vendor that would provide remote management capabilities and have a local datacenter so that support and dialog could be done live if needed.

Glasstire is a small, not-for-profit company that offers information, services, and social media to the art community. Its website provides information and logistics about art shows, artists, collections, and other art-related activities. The site serves up thousands of pages and attracts hundreds of visitors each day. Glasstire was already outsourcing the development, system administration, and operation of its website, so the use of a hosted cloud infrastructure was not a foreign business concept. The company is based in Houston, Texas.