Cloud Clusters Hosting – Case Study

Sublime Shoes SQD

SublimeSQD is a young and dynamic Italian footwear brand, with an unmistakable style and a contemporary soul, ideal for all the shopping addicts of the world who want to wear fashionable shoes on any type of occasion.

The Sublime girl is always attentive to the latest trends and is not afraid to dare, which is why we are constantly looking for new trends from the catwalks and the world of street style, so as to capture their essence and create unique products, accessible to all fashionistas.

URL: https://www.sublimeshop.it/
Application: Magento 2
Product: Cloud Clusters Hosting

Their Challenge

SublimeSQD was hosting their website in a Managed Dedicated Server with a different hosting provider but they were very unhappy with the poor website performance. Their website went offline frequently when the server backup was running and the backup was stored in the same server which is not the best practice.

They were also facing issues with their Magento 2 store every other day. Their old host setup Varnish cache in the server but interfered with their stock quantity display in their website frontend and they were forced to constantly clear their caches for updates to show up in the website.

They were also concerned about the ability of the dedicated server to handle spikes in traffic during major sales like Black Friday.

Our Solution

SublimeSQD approached us for a solution to their problem and we decided on our Cloud Clusters Hosting as the recommended solution.

With our Cloud Clusters Hosting, their website achieved a two-fold (2x or 100%) increase in performance thanks to our Magento Optimizations at the hardware and software level while SublimeSQD recorded a 50% increase in sales to their Magento 2 powered store!

Redundancy and availability of the website improved significantly as well with our 2N+1 High Availability architecture. All data are replicated in real-time across servers in different countries, ensuring that the website will remain up and running even in the event of any country level networking issues. In addition to that, we take backups daily and store them offsite for the ultimate data protection.

We replaced the ageing Varnish cache with LiteMage Cache, the fastest caching system for Magento which turbocharged the frontend of the website while allowing more traffic to be served without straining the servers. We complement it with an expertly tuned MariaDB Database along with Redis Cache to speed up the Checkout process and the Magento backend.

Our Magento Master also helped to troubleshoot and completely resolved the stock quantity display issue which has been plauging the SublimeSQD store since they were hosted at their previous provider.

With our Cloud Clusters Hosting, SublimeSQD can rest easy when it comes to any major sales or traffic spike with the flexibility to add more servers to their Cloud Clusters to cater to short term spikes or the ability to upgrade their servers for long term traffic growth.