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the process of bringing GQ and Vogue over to GoGrid. Today, all three of the company’s most popular titles run on GoGrid, and the company plans to move Myself to GoGrid in the near future. Five cloud servers run behind one dedicated load balancer. Two dedicated machines - one master and one slave - run the company’s MySQL content database. Additional cloud servers power the company’s community message boards, and dedicated machines run the database for the boards. Another load balancer spreads traffic across the servers. For testing and staging, the company uses two cloud servers along with a dedicated CMS and database server.
Results With traditional hosting, Condé Nast Digital Germany’s costs were skyrocketing as it scaled its infrastructure to meet bursts in demand. Now, the IT team at Condé Nast Digital Germany simply reviews the magazine’s editorial calendars in advance, and scales its GoGrid capacity as needed.
“Our hosted infrastructure was expensive, and as our online readership grew, it was getting more expensive all the time,” says Teske. “We had to buy or lease enough server capacity to handle bursts in traffic. At a minimum, the leases were for a month, and it took time to add them to our infrastructure. With GoGrid, I can add
server capacity in about 20 minutes, use it for a few days, and turn it off. So we’re not locked into paying for a whole month of service we only need for a day or two.”
Lower TCO with Better Performance Since turning to GoGrid, Condé Nast Digital Germany has retired more than a dozen machines in an external data center. The total cost of ownership (TCO) of the new solution is much lower and the IT team at Condé Nast Digital Germany doesn’t miss the hassle associated with its hosted solution. “We don’t have to take time to set up new machines or complete full stress testing,” explains Teske. “The GoGrid interface makes it easy to manage our infrastructure. With the time we save, we’re able to focus on new initiatives, such as delivering content to mobile devices.”
Summing up the benefits of moving to GoGrid, Teske adds, “You might ask, ‘Why move to the cloud? I’ll have to reengineer everything just to save a little money.’ With GoGrid, we really didn’t have to reengineer our sites, and we’re saving quite a lot of money. It’s almost like being able to instantly acquire the ideal in-house infrastructure for our needs without having to buy or manage any machines. The performance is actually better than traditional hosting because we’ve gone from 99.8 percent uptime to 99.9 percent uptime.”
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