SCALE · 24Media
Greece's largest digital publisher serves 12 million unique visitors a month from our hardware.
In their words
“When you need to reach your readers, there is no compromise with downtime.”
Dimitris Bassos · Project Director · 24Media
Where were they before?
Servers all over the place, and a bill for support every time something needed attention. In their own words: "We had servers all over the place, we're being charged extra for support every time there was a need for assistance. Things were getting out of control."
What did we build?
We moved 24Media's Sport24, News247 and lifestyle sites from Amsterdam to Athens and rebuilt them on more than 30 HPE ProLiant servers running bare-metal workloads, each on 2×25GbE LACP and 2×16Gb Fibre Channel to HPE 3PAR all-flash storage, protected by HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence so storage stays online even if a whole array goes down. Every tier is clustered: HAProxy and Varnish at the edge, nginx and PHP web servers, Percona XtraDB clusters with ProxySQL, clustered Valkey for object caching and an Elasticsearch cluster for search. Hourly backups, nonstop replication and geographically distributed disaster recovery protect it all, and every cutover was rehearsed and ready to roll back.
What changed?
Before: the platform got unstable at peak traffic. Now: election nights and championship finals run at full load, and nothing rings. Setup fees and per-incident support charges are gone; support is included.
The receipt
Roughly ten support tickets in roughly ten years, against continuous high-traffic news operations. Their election nights happen. Nobody calls.
What they get
- Personalized 24/7 support from the engineers who built it
- Hourly backups, nonstop replication and geographically distributed disaster recovery
HPE PROLIANT BARE METAL · HPE 3PAR ALL-FLASH · 3PAR PEER PERSISTENCE · HAPROXY · VARNISH · NGINX · PHP · PERCONA XTRADB CLUSTER · VALKEY · ELASTICSEARCH
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