- Infrastructure Migration
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Shannon Financials is a software company that aims to help the average-joe consumer with their investment portfolios.
Shannon Financials spent 2 quarters in R&D, building a software-as-a-service web application. Upon the completion of their software, all ran well, and they deployed their software onto the industry-standing infrastructure solutions: Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
The company ran into a very interesting problem: the software ran perfectly fine on the company's modern work laptops-- Apple MacBook Pro's -- with moderate semiconductor and chip specs; yet, once deployed onto Google Cloud, the algorithms ran at an much slow pace, resulting in a user experience that was nearly a deal breaker. Better yet, Google Cloud's fees delivered poor hardware specs for the price that our customers paid.
We used our knowledge of building on-premise servers and setting up cloud servers from the bare metals of the BIOS and Linux to help our customers get better compute per dollar and lock them into a statically-priced, fixed-term contract with Hetzner Cloud, instead of the industry standard Hyperscalers of Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
The results were eye-opening. The Stealth Startup's Cloud bill decreased from hundreds, pushing thousands of dollars per month, to tens of dollars per month at a fixed price; more importantly, the Stealth Startup's software algorithms long run-times vanished, because Hetzner Cloud's servers offered more compute per dollar than Google Cloud's servers.
The reason Hetzner Cloud's servers are economically different that those of the Google Cloud or AWS is because Hetzner's Servers are Infrastructure-as-a-Service, whereas Google Cloud and equivalents are Platform-as-a-Service.
With our knowledge in Operating Systems, Databases, Linux Network Protocols & Security, and Application Hosting on IaaS, we helped our customer migrate from PaaS to IaaS, and turn their $X,XXX.XX per month of Operating Expenses into $XX.XX per month, and provided them hardware that allowed their software to run like they expected it to.
With a myraid of Cloud Computing options avaliable, it has become a skillset to choose the right Infrastructure for your own organization's needs.