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Drysdales
Industry: Clothing Retailer
www.drysdales.com
Drysdales is a retailer of western wear offering clothing and apparel for men, women, and children.
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Project Overview:
Already an established company, Drysdales was looking for someone who had experience with large scale systems to help them clean up and streamline their custom ecommerce system. We provided maintenance and helped dramaticlly speed up their shopping cart along with adding functionality for international orders.
Project Features:
This highly popular website was bogging down due to the massive volume of website traffic during the busy holiday season. With a dedicated mysql server and two dedicated apache web servers sitting behind a coyote load balancer the hardware was hardly to blame for the slew of customer complaints, phone calls, and abandoned orders. Last december they approached us with many severe problems with their website.
Within just a few days we were able to reverse-architect the website, identify the performance bottlenecks, re-design certain critical SQL queries, and tune the mysql database. This optimization effort reduced page load times from about 2 minutes down to a few seconds, causing their order volume to sky-rocket during the busy holiday season.
