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Shopping Cart Elite: Providing long term solutions

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	E-Commerce
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	ShoppingCartElite.com, a full business suite for running an online business, was facing challenges with web performance, security, and SSL needs as it grew. The company was only offering shared SSL, which was not a long-term solution for its customers. During their search for a solution, they suffered a major DoS attack that affected their entire clientele. This situation prompted them to test Cloudflare's service across hundreds of their client's websites. Read More
About Customer	ShoppingCartElite.com is a comprehensive business suite that provides solutions for running an online business. The company offers a full solution eCommerce service to hundreds of websites, providing organic traffic through SEO and catering to all eCommerce needs of their clients. As the company grew, so did its web performance and security needs. They were also in search of a solution to support dedicated SSL as the only SSL they offered was shared, which was not a sustainable solution for their customers. Read More
Solution	ShoppingCartElite.com found Cloudflare in early 2011 and began considering the service as a potential solution to their web performance, security, and SSL needs. After suffering a major DoS attack, they decided to test Cloudflare's service across all of their client's websites. The results were impressive. Cloudflare offloaded server resources by about 30%, saving the company a significant amount of time and money. With the Cloudflare CDN, every image was automatically cached and served, making their sites almost 40% faster across the board. Each byte load was cut by half a second. Cloudflare also allowed ShoppingCartElite.com to give each customer standalone SSL. With Cloudflare SSL, they didn't need to install SSL certificates on their servers because it worked at the DNS level. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

E-Commerce

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

ShoppingCartElite.com, a full business suite for running an online business, was facing challenges with web performance, security, and SSL needs as it grew. The company was only offering shared SSL, which was not a long-term solution for its customers. During their search for a solution, they suffered a major DoS attack that affected their entire clientele. This situation prompted them to test Cloudflare's service across hundreds of their client's websites.

About Customer

ShoppingCartElite.com is a comprehensive business suite that provides solutions for running an online business. The company offers a full solution eCommerce service to hundreds of websites, providing organic traffic through SEO and catering to all eCommerce needs of their clients. As the company grew, so did its web performance and security needs. They were also in search of a solution to support dedicated SSL as the only SSL they offered was shared, which was not a sustainable solution for their customers.

Solution

ShoppingCartElite.com found Cloudflare in early 2011 and began considering the service as a potential solution to their web performance, security, and SSL needs. After suffering a major DoS attack, they decided to test Cloudflare's service across all of their client's websites. The results were impressive. Cloudflare offloaded server resources by about 30%, saving the company a significant amount of time and money. With the Cloudflare CDN, every image was automatically cached and served, making their sites almost 40% faster across the board. Each byte load was cut by half a second. Cloudflare also allowed ShoppingCartElite.com to give each customer standalone SSL. With Cloudflare SSL, they didn't need to install SSL certificates on their servers because it worked at the DNS level.

Impact #1	Cloudflare offloaded server resources by about 30%, saving ShoppingCartElite.com a significant amount of time and money.
Impact #2	With the Cloudflare CDN, every image was automatically cached and served, making their sites almost 40% faster across the board.
Impact #3	Cloudflare SSL allowed ShoppingCartElite.com to give each customer standalone SSL without needing to install SSL certificates on their servers.

Impact #1

Cloudflare offloaded server resources by about 30%, saving ShoppingCartElite.com a significant amount of time and money.

Impact #2

With the Cloudflare CDN, every image was automatically cached and served, making their sites almost 40% faster across the board.

Impact #3

Cloudflare SSL allowed ShoppingCartElite.com to give each customer standalone SSL without needing to install SSL certificates on their servers.

Benefit #1	Server resources offloaded by about 30%
Benefit #2	Site speed improved by almost 40%
Benefit #3	Byte load cut by half a second

Benefit #1

Server resources offloaded by about 30%

Benefit #2

Site speed improved by almost 40%

Benefit #3

Byte load cut by half a second

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Shopping Cart Elite: Providing long term solutions

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