Case Study: EatAbout automates infrastructure and scales with Cloud 66

How EatAbout the “Airbnb of restaurants” survived press coverage from the Daily Mail Online

EatAbout, the “Airbnb of restaurants,” is an early-stage London startup connecting diners with chefs in private homes. With a small engineering team and growing attention from press coverage, they needed a simple, reliable way to manage infrastructure, deployments, and backups without spending too much time on operations. They used Cloud 66 to run their staging and production stacks, along with services like S3 and New Relic.

Cloud 66 helped EatAbout automate server setup, deploy from Git, manage background processes and database backups, and monitor application health with tools like SSL add-ins and Live Logs. The team also valued Cloud 66’s configuration checks, which caught a typo in an Nginx update before it could bring the server down. As a result, EatAbout gained more time to focus on product growth, with the confidence that they could scale quickly by adding load balancing and horizontal capacity when needed.

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