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The immediate popularity of Brick forced Alfred Xing to plan a migration from the shared-hosting on which Brick originated to virtual private servers. Brick handles more than 700,000 requests each day (~37GB of traffic). In its first year, Brick has served more than 200 million requests (almost 10TB) for its exacting, WOFF-compressed copies of the original webfonts, converted without modification to various formats for a better typographical experience. Demand continues to grow. Brick serves webfonts with full metadata and without subsetting, resulting in large files (ranging from 20KB to 700KB). Consequently, Xing sought a cloud host that could satisfy three primary infrastructure criteria: high throughput, sufficient CPU power to quickly generate CSS @font-face rules on-the-fly, and a reliable network. Additionally, Brick preferred a cloud service provider that was reputable, well-known for responsive customer support, and affordable.

As an online radio service, AccuRadio faced unique infrastructure challenges due to fluctuating usage rates and the need for flexibility and constancy. Daily usage spikes during lunch and coffee-break times, and listenership varies significantly during events like March Madness and the holidays. Any obstacle preventing users from accessing their favorite channels could lead to dissatisfied users, reduced usage, and revenue loss. AccuRadio's previous infrastructure was non-customizable, inhibiting the ability to measure and interact with its audience effectively. The company needed a flexible and affordable infrastructure to launch new ideas, scale up when necessary, and manage its 1,000-plus channels efficiently. Additionally, as a small company with a dedicated but small tech team, the cloud host had to be reliable and not slow down operations.

The Onion began its online presence last century, using on-site, dedicated servers. However, having encountered system reliability, performance monitoring and application tracking challenges with this hardware, the company shifted to the cloud - and more specifically, Linode. Today, The Onion’s virtual IT infrastructure, which includes 51 Linodes, functions on internal networking between those Linodes. The vast majority of the site’s 11 million distinct monthly visitors connect through this internal networking, Linode’s facilitation of which is critical to optimizing The Onion’s performance. That performance is rooted in a content delivery network, whereby The Onion stores an abundant amount of text, images and other content on origin servers. A dual layer caching system, comprised of individual Varnish servers integrates with the CDN provider, CDNetworks, and serves content for requests from four public-facing servers. These four servers include two application servers and two origin servers that host images. Any user request for content residing on an origin server gets channeled through the Varnish server, which caches the request and also acts as a failsafe in case the origin experiences downtime. Once the Varnish server pulls the requested content in from the origin servers, the CDN and Varnish servers sustain it for 10 minutes before flushing it and refreshing the content. Consequently, the system will deliver content more quickly to subsequent requests than to initial requests. With millions of monthly visitors to The Onion websites, Sinchok’s staff must be diligent in its system monitoring and maintenance. Traffic loads are balanced by using multiple Linodes, connected via private, internal networking. Systems monitoring is done with software such as Graphite and Nagios that runs on individual SSD-powered Linodes. To ensure redundancy and data resiliency, in the event of a failure of services, The Onion frequently backs up its systems using an exclusive, proprietary, backup process. One backup is stored in a server in their Chicago office, and the other is backed up directly to AWS S3.

CloudSigma, a pure-cloud IaaS provider offers flexible and innovative cloud hosting solutions for companies of all sizes in Europe, USA and APAC.CloudSigma’s mission is to disrupt the IaaS market by supplying digital energy (CPU, RAM, disk, GPU and network) more efficiently in a more powerful form as a utility through local partners with existing market knowledge and pools of ready customers.Giving its thousands of customers full control over their cloud and eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources, CloudSigma provides them precisely the capacity volumes they need, rather than forcing them into fixed packages.CloudSigma focuses on customers that have complex compute requirements, such as companies in the financial services, media, manufacturing and other R&D intensive industries irrelevant of their size.

Based in Beijing Zhongguancun high-tech park, AWcloud is the leading provider of enterprise OpenStack-powered IaaS for public, private and hybrid cloud solutions in China. Their founding team brought decades of experience developing, building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure deployments. The core team has a unique array of technical expertise in virtualization, Cloud Computing, infrastructure services and holds an excellent reputation among their customers.

Edensoft is a leading IT solutions and cloud service provider.

Vultr is simplifying the cloud. One Login, Seven Countries, Fifteen Cities, Infinite Possibilities.Vultr empowers your environment with incredible cloud processing power and blazing fast I/O for a fraction of the cost and time. Deploy resources instantly in any of our 15 data centers around the globe. Our cloud compute centers are currently located in these major cities: Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Miami, and Silicon Valley.Vultr Holdings was founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky with offices in Central New Jersey and South Florida. We're hiring! Join our team today at Vultr.com/Careers

Wiwynn is an innovative cloud IT infrastructure provider of high quality computing and storage products, plus rack solutions for leading data centers. We aggressively invest in next generation technologies for workload and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) optimization. As an OCP (Open Compute Project) solution provider and platinum member, Wiwynn actively participates in advanced computing and storage system designs while constantly implementing the benefits of OCP into traditional data centers.