Case Study: The Young, Black, and Fabulous cuts hosting costs by 50% with ClearScale

The Young, Black, and Fabulous - Customer Case Study

The Young, Black, and Fabulous, a celebrity gossip website, faced unstable traffic handling on Rackspace RackConnect Cloud and Dedicated Servers with RightScale. Autoscaling was not working, the site missed revenue and branding opportunities during a major story, and it was paying for unused infrastructure.

ClearScale migrated The Young, Black, and Fabulous to AWS and redesigned the stack with CloudFormation, OpsWorks, RDS, Elasticache, and ELB. The new setup cut hosting costs by 50%, eliminated RightScale expense, improved uptime, and let the site scale for traffic spikes with almost no downtime during cutover.

The Young, Black, and Fabulous

Natasha Eubanks

Owner