GATSBY, an online store for women’s apparel and clothing, was growing rapidly as more and more customers embraced online shopping. The online store and accompanying applications serve shoppers looking for hot new looks and closet staples.
With so much growth and so many shoppers visiting the site, the GATSBY online experience started to show signs of fragility. Their site experienced persistent downtime and speed issues, leading to a frustrating user experience. This problem wasn’t fleeting; it persisted for over a year, which significantly hindered the company’s growth and led to noticeable revenue losses. Despite several attempts to rectify these performance issues through their local hosting solutions, GATSBY found these efforts to be insufficient, leaving them in search of a more robust and reliable solution.
As the company confronted these growth challenges, ShopGatsby.com, IT Director Danny Esparra knew that a reliable and long-term solution was overdue.
GATSBY’s pivotal moment came when they discovered Everleap. Upon reviewing Everleap’s offerings, especially its Managed Hosting Service, GATSBY recognized a potential solution to their ongoing challenges. After a quick collaboration, Everleap stepped in to apply their expertise. Within just a week, Everleap had implemented their Managed Hosting Service for GATSBY, targeting the specific issues of downtime and slow website performance.
Everleap’s approach was comprehensive, focusing not just on immediate fixes but also on how to ensure long-term stability and scalability. This quick and efficient response demonstrated Everleap’s ability to handle complex technical challenges with agility and precision.
The results of Everleap’s intervention were transformative. GATSBY saw a significant enhancement in website performance, with noticeable reductions in downtime. This improvement was not just a technical success; it resonated deeply with their customer base, leading to increased customer satisfaction and engagement. The direct impact on GATSBY’s financial health was evident, as the enhanced website performance directly correlated with a reversal in the trend of revenue loss.
Since making the move to Everleap, the ShopGatsby.com website has experienced minimal disruptions and performs better than ever. Customers are thrilled with the online experience and repeat shoppers are on the rise.
In the Fall of 2022, the team at Showroom Software had finally had enough. After migrating to a public cloud platform, the IT and engineering professionals tasked with keeping the Showroom platform running for furniture stores and designers were at their breaking point. The problem? For all the performance and scalability of the public cloud infrastructure, their support and service were sorely lacking.
Showroom Software was established in 2001, providing e-commerce and digital marketing solutions to furniture stores and designers alike. With the help of their software, businesses could manage customer orders, create custom catalogs, build websites, handle payment processing, generate leads, and more.
On the public cloud system, the team had difficulty troubleshooting problems quickly or getting real-time advice on how to optimize their architecture for maximum performance. This not only caused delays in their operations but also resulted in lost revenue due to downtime and other hiccups that could have been avoided with better guidance from the public cloud provider.
Realizing they needed a better hosting solution to ensure their customers’ success and that of Showroom Software’s own platform, they reached out to Everleap. Immediately impressed by Everleap’s commitment to 24/7/365 customer service, Showroom Software saw an opportunity to alleviate some of the pain points associated with cloud hosting.
With Everleap’s help, Showroom Software was able to make an effortless migration into the cloud while taking advantage of Everleap’s cloud hosting expertise as well as its proactive advanced monitoring capabilities. Now they have access to quality customer support whenever they need it — helping them nip issues in the bud before any significant downtime occurs — as well as knowledgeable engineers who can advise on best practices for designing high-performance applications at scale.
All too often, small businesses choose technology without a clear understanding of what is available and what they need. When business consultant and full-stack developer Pelle Uvebrant began working with Chair Care Patio he learned that their small website was hosted with Azure, leading to huge costs and a complicated and cumbersome support experience. Even worse, the website faced several technical issues that the Azure team was slow to address for such a small business.
As a result, Pelle quickly recommended a new hosting provider that could provide both the technical and support experience that the business needed.
With a quick web search, he discovered Everleap. Everleap offered a fully-managed private cloud solution, excellent customer support, and affordable pricing, which solved the client’s problems.
Here is the story of Chair Care Patio told from Pelle Uvebrant’s point of view.
Statdash is a task management progress tracker that allows you to see where your project stands in one dashboard. The solution employs an automated status request scheduler and activity notifications to eliminate the legwork usually needed to track down team members and find out the status of tasks and activities. We recently chatted with Pam Nelligan, Chief Software Architect and one of the co-founders of Statdash to learn more about her startup and how Everleap has fit into her growing business.
Everleap: Thanks for talking with us Pam. Tell us about yourself and your professional background.
Pam Nelligan: I’m a software developer and also a certified project manager. Software development has changed a lot since I started in 1991. It was a whole different world back then – no Internet per se and no development on the Internet. I worked for a software development company for 16 years and in 2007 went out on my own to be an independent contractor. When I left the company I was at, I decided to get into development on the Internet.
Founded in 2000, AmateurGolf.com is a website created for avid golfers who aren’t pros, connecting them to the pulse of the competitive amateur game. The site’s main focus is its directory of golf tournaments, a database of around 2,000 events per year. We recently chatted with founder Pete Wlodkowski to learn more about the site and his move to Everleap.
Everleap: Thanks for talking with us Pete. First off, could you tell us a little more about yourself and your professional background?
Pete Wlodkowski: I came to the business from a technology sales and marketing background. While I’m a non-techie and not a programmer, I got experience in the tech world working with a few different organizations, including a software company. It was here that I learned about websites, how they operate and how customers use them.
The entire Q&A with Jeff – and more customer stories – are available on our site.
Jeff Ammons is the President of the Gwinnett, Georgia, Microsoft User Group (GGMUG). As the hosting sponsor of the GGMUG since 2010, we wanted to learn more about Jeff and his group and we talked with him recently to get the details about what he has going on and how it all came to be.
Thanks for talking with us Jeff. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your professional background.
I’ve worked for a variety of companies over the past couple of decades ranging from very small to very large. My longest experience was with the Atlanta Journal Constitution where I spent ten years. I love the AJC, but newspapers are having a hard time in the 21st century.
The entire Kids-U GiveCamp story – and many more customer stories – are available on our website.
Kids-U is a Texas non-profit that has provided after school tutoring in math, language arts and reading to over 3,000 students in Dallas. 99.9% of Kids-U students have been promoted to the next school grade. How can an organization like this afford to hire designers, developers, business consultants and IT professionals? In short, they can’t. Every single penny they raise goes towards ensuring underprivileged children get the support they need.
Recently, Ryan Gilmour and Dallas GiveCamp teamed up to build a great database application for Kids-U. GiveCamp is a weekend-long event that pairs charitable organizations with technology professionals who donate their time to assist these non-profits in developing solutions, strategies and tools that help them continue their good work more effectively and efficiently.
The entire Q&A with Kyle – and more customer stories – are available on our site.
This year’s Little Rock Techfest is taking place on October 16th, 2015 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Arkansas. As the hosting sponsor for the conference, we recently caught up with developer Kyle Neumeier, one of the organizers, to learn more about the event.
Everleap: Thanks for talking with us Kyle. Could you tell us a little more about yourself and your professional background?
Kyle Neumeier: I’m a software developer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. I deal mainly with Microsoft technology but have used other tech as well, namely Java, in the past. I’ve been doing this for eight years. I currently work remotely for CareEvolution, a health information technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The entire Q&A with Neil – and more customer stories – are available on our site.
Avid cyclist Neil Baker started ezRider in 2012. Neil is a programmer who works professionally in the Electrical Engineering industry with experience in developing Windows desktop database applications. He paired his love of bike riding with his programming knowledge to a build a site that connects riders with others in their local area. Recently, Neil made some upgrades to his site, taking his site into the cloud with Everleap.
Everleap: Thanks for talking with us Neil. First off, let’s chat a little bit about your site and how it got started.
Neil Baker: Melbourne Australia’s Beach Road is one of the busiest roads in the world for weekend warrior road bike riding. It is estimated that there are up to 30,000 riders on the road on a good weekend. Around five years ago, I became one of them. These riders consist of single riders as well as small, medium and large groups. In my group, around four to ten of us would ride regularly on Saturdays and Sundays. Organizing our group meant “are you going yes or no?” phone calls and mass SMS about the planned ride and where to meet. This worked well, but we never knew who was going to turn up – people were at times left alone at the meeting spot or we left without someone.
The entire Q&A with Jason – and more customer stories – are available on our site.
GoldenSlam.com was founded by developer Jason Mauss. Jason started programming as a teenager in the 1990s and he is currently a Lead Software Engineer for a data center company. GoldenSlam.com gives tennis fans the opportunity to play a fantasy tennis game and follow players, scores and stats from the pro tour, while also being part of a community of individuals passionate about the sport.
Everleap: Thanks for taking the time to talk with us Jason. Tell us a little bit about your site and how it got started.
Jason Mauss: I had the idea for the site kicking around my head for a long time. When you look at other popular sports like hockey, baseball, soccer, and football, they all have data easily available on tons of sites, with all kinds of ways fans can invest themselves in the sport. It used to be that you would just watch your favorite team once a week and that would be about it. Millions of fans can now watch ALL of the games played each week, create their own fantasy rosters and really just live and breathe their sport.