CASE STUDIES

Client Overview

• Our USA client was providing Wordpress Content Management Service Provider to his clients across the globe using website.
• An effort to educate anyone who is new to the WordPress platform. The site focuses on the "how" and "why" of using the WordPress content management system.

Client Pain Points

As one of the most popular sites online, understandably it receives a high volume of daily traffic. The site currently serves more than 300,000 page views daily (on average) and a monthly total exceeding 9 million. It is no simple task to build an infrastructure able to sustain a site.

Maintaining functionality, speed and availability in the face of attacks is a separate set of hurdles altogether.

This site was no exception to the rule. Over time, the site’s traffic began to present its own share of challenges. Serious challenges.

In addition to suffering DDoS attacks, there was the issue of brute force attempts. The issue is so prevalent among the WordPress community.

SandSberg tracked more than 1 billion brute force attempts on WordPress websites. The increased server load and consistent attacks weighed heavily on the site and caused performance problems that required the attention of a specialist and a large amount of Client’s valuable time in direct management.

SansBerg Engagement Results

Sandsberg Advanced Intelligent Web Threat Analyzer identified:

• Top 5 blocked occurrences like: Spam Comments, ~70,986 (39%); DDOS attempts, ~27,907 (15%); Bad Bot access, ~18,565 (10%); Brute Force attempts, ~15,047 (8%); Evasion attempts ~10,575 (5.8%).
• All attempts were successfully thwarted after implementation of Sandsberg Website Security.

Industry

Education

Geography

North America

Benefits

• The biggest advantage of using Sandsberg is that I don’t have to get a server admin anymore.
• I had a 5th admin, part-time and I was paying $2,500/ month to keep him on retainer.
• Because of Sandberg services We simply concentrate on our business, No more 5th admin and threats….

Client Overview

• Our USA client is providing software tools to Ecommerce, Digital Marketing, PPC and SEO clients to build website and applications services.

Client Pain points

Our client was offering entire eCommerce solutions and service to hundreds of websites. As they have grown, so have their web performance and security needs. In addition, they were in search of a solution to support dedicated SSL. The only SSL they offered was shared, which was not a long-term solution for their customers.

We found Sandsberg in early 2011 and began looking at the service as a possible answer to the web performance, security and SSL needs we were facing. We were intrigued with the service, but were not sure how it would work across hundreds of domains.

During our research, we suffered a major DDoS attack that affected our entire clientele. We figured it would be a good opportunity to test the service and so, we put all of our client’s websites on Sandsberg network.

SansBerg Engagement Results

Sandsberg Advanced Intelligent Web Threat Analyzer identified:

• Sandsberg offloaded server resources by about 30%, saving us a considerable amount of time and money. With the Sandsberg CDN, every image was automatically cached and served, making our sites almost 40% faster across the board. Each byte load was cut by half a second which was impressive.
• Sandsberg helped with performance and security improvement.

Industry

SaaS

Geography

North America

Benefits

• Our business is not IT security, so it’s nice to have Sandsberg doing what they do best behind the scenes allowing us to sleep at night.
• You would typically have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for the service Sandsberg offers. If you’re in eCommerce, performance is very critical and imperative for your customers.
• Sandsberg can definitely help you more than you can ever imagine.