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Accredited with the highest possible ‘A++’ grade by NAAC and one of the best universities in India as per NIRF 2024.
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High Infra Costs
High spec instance types, manual scaling and poor architecture resulted in high infra costs.
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The Challenge
The University’s website, with an average of 1,000 concurrent users, and exponentially growing that number to 10,000+ during admission and exam results time, required horizontal scaling to prevent downtime and slow loading times. The main challenges faced during scaling were managing media files, optimising the database, ensuring smooth code deployment, and keeping the FinOps best practices in tact.
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Outdated WordPress Versions
Due to lack of staging environment, University was running an outdated version of WP, in fear of breaking the existing website.
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No Failover or Disaster Recovery
The then existed architecture didn’t had resilience and involved manual intervention whenever a downtime occurred.
Problem Analysis
Their initial architecture lacked scalability and ran on high-spec resources. Although hosted on AWS, they weren’t fully leveraging AWS Cloud benefits. They sought to optimize both architecture and costs, a challenge, given their high traffic volume.
The commonly used scalable architecture for WordPress involves using EFS (a shared file system), but in their case, using EFS would increase costs and lead to performance issues. Therefore, we needed a more reliable & scalable way to set up WordPress using our time-tested CloudOps and DevOps best practices & methodologies.
