ZippyKid.com Case Study

ZippyKid.com Case Study

Industry

Managed WordPress Hosting

Site

http://www.zippykid.com

Description

ZippyKid makes WordPress hosting painless. Their customers know that WordPress is the best platform for their website or business and have already identified the need for a premium hosting solution. They know they need to use caching and a CDN for their site, but they lack the technical expertise or desire to implement such solutions. ZippyKid WordPress hosting solution bundles a CDN with their paid offering.

Solutions

EdgeCaching for Platforms

Testimonial

“NetDNA is the only CDN provider that offers real time provisioning and purging. They’re the only company that understands the needs of a hosting solution provider like us.”

Vid Luther, Founder ZippyKid.com

Project Overview

ZippyKid is activating hundreds of sites every week, and needed an automated solution to enable/disable as well as purge the CDN of a website. Finding a CDN that was able to do near real time provisioning (less than 30 seconds), and real time purging was key.

Challenge

After reviewing ZippyKids’s original solution, NetDNA identified areas of improvement that ZippyKid can leverage:

Instant provisioning of zones

Instant purging of zones

The ability to automate instant provisioning and purging via the RESTful API

Have a seemlessly deep integrated solution that pushes CDN operations into the backend

Solution

NetDNA provided the following solution

Helped integrate ZippyKid to NetDNA’s network, so that provisioning zones and purging cache were automated.

Accelerated the content of ZippyKid’s clients websites with a 50% improvement in content delivery.

NetDNA allowed ZippyKid to leverage a global network and utilize flex locations.

Results

Some of the key impacts that ZippyKid has seen after integrating with NetDNA:

Deep Integration with NetDNA’s Rest API in order to help offload static assets from ZippyKid’s servers to NetDNA’s global edge locaitons.

50% faster delivery of content as well as a decrease in page load time of ZippyKid’s customers’ websites.

Why NetDNA?

“Their level of support, flexibility, and ability to respond to issues within minutes (instead of hours) was key. When we needed to overcome challenges with the API, we could talk to the engineers directly, rather than dealing with a sales force/account team that had to pass things off to engineers. If you’re an agile company, you need agile partners like NetDNA that can work on building the solution with you, rather than selling you on the preferred solution of the vendor.” – Vid Luther

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Problem

ZippyKid was activating hundreds of WordPress sites a week. They needed to enable, disable and purge CDN per site without a ticket.

Setup

EdgeCaching for Platforms plus the REST API. Provisioning and purge were automated into ZippyKid’s backend (Vid Luther: “the only CDN provider that offers real time provisioning and purging”).

Result

2013 published result: 50% faster delivery of customer content, static assets offloaded to NetDNA edge locations, engineers reachable in minutes instead of an account team.

Metrics on recovered studies use figures published on the 2013 NetDNA site. Vertical pages describe the pattern, not a named customer’s private numbers.

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