Case Study: Moxy Media's Custom Hybrid Infrastructure
Providing On-Demand Scaling to Manage Internet Traffic Spikes
"The GoGrid platform is fast, efficient and cost effective."
—Dave Horsey, Director of IT, Moxy Media
Profile
Moxy Media is a leading online media publishing firm with over 300 internet properties each providing consumers with information and
access to products and services across 20 broad themes, including
Legal & Medical Services, Finance, Electronics, Health &
Fitness,
Fashion, Education, Home & Garden, Automotive and Travel.
Challenge
With more than 15 million visitors to their sites each month, Moxy Media
needed to expand their existing colocated physical servers to handle
traffic spikes.
The ability to rapidly scale and continue to leverage their existing
physical servers was essential in the construction of their IT
solution.
Solution
Collaboration was key in creating a unique hybrid infrastructure that
allowed for rapid expansion via GoGrid virtual servers and Moxy Media’s
colocated physical servers housed in the GoGrid data center. Because
of our longstanding partnership, GoGrid recognized that the allocation
of time
and resources were of upmost importance to Moxy Media. Helping Moxy
Media in a consultative manner, GoGrid was able to build a custom
solution that
linked GoGrid virtual servers and Moxy Media’s existing colocated
physical servers via a private VLAN. Worries about traffic spikes were
effectively eliminated
and Moxy Media was able to focus on successfully managing their
internet properties.
Moxy Media's Flexible Hybrid Infrastructure
Results
Easily scale virtual servers to meet traffic spikes on-demand
No downtime
Avenue for rapid expansion—don’t have to wait for hardware
