Case Study: Helium Development cuts hosting costs and improves scalability with Cloud 66

Helium Development, a digital creative agency, that specialise in Shopify website design and web app development Powered by Cloud 66

Helium Development is a Seattle-based digital creative agency specializing in Shopify website design and Ruby on Rails web app development. Before working with Cloud 66, the team hosted on Heroku but struggled with rising costs, limited server control, and occasional outages they could not quickly fix themselves.

With Cloud 66 classic stacks, Helium Development was able to deploy and manage Rails apps more efficiently on Linode, with easy scaling across web, database, and worker servers, plus add-ins like SSL, backups, and load balancing. Cloud 66 helped them cut hosting costs by about half, reducing a comparable setup from roughly $50/month on Heroku to about $20/month on Linode, while also improving response times and simplifying deployments.

Helium Development

Nick Mealey

Founder