Imagine 70% of your company’s revenue being generated from online sales. Now imagine that it takes between 30-60 seconds for each page to load. Frustrating? We can imagine.

Service Lighting (elightbulbs.com), located in Maple Grove, MN, struggled with this exact problem. “Trying to administer the server proved to be more of a distraction from our core business and presented us with performance and reliability issues that we weren’t staffed to handle,” said Paul McLellan, Vice President at Service Lighting.

In addition to performance worries, the overall reliability of the system quickly came into question when a hard drive failure brought down the entire server due to an improperly configured RAID controller. As e-commerce sales continued to grow at a rapid pace, “it was apparent that we didn’t have the true redundancy we required,” says McLellan.

That’s when they decided to give VISI a call.  Our team took a look at their setup and recommended many changes, with our Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) based on VMware ESX playing a key role. Today, page loads are speedy, data migrations which used to take 45 minutes now take 20 seconds, and their service has become predictably reliable.  McLellan says, “VISI knocked it out of the park. You cannot fabricate these kinds of results.”

We are pleased to hear such a success story from one of our customers.  You can read the full story online.

“Show don’t tell,” is what I was always told in elementary school English class. While I don’t think my teacher meant create a video, I hope she would still be proud. As technology becomes increasingly complex, the ability to demonstrate key concepts and ideas via the web has been extremely valuable for me. I hope this video providing an overview of our VDS in the Cloud product, based on VMware, is equally valuable for you. Enjoy!

Please visit visi.com/business/cloud/vdsinthecloud.aspx for more information on our VDS in the Cloud product.