Case Study: Anchorfan achieves scalable performance during traffic spikes with Cloud Pro

Cloud is a hit with Anchorfan

Anchorfan, a social sports website, was struggling to handle sharp spikes in traffic during major sporting events. Its existing physical-server hosting setup could not scale quickly enough, causing slow performance, downtime, and higher costs during quieter periods when excess capacity wasn’t needed.

Cloud Pro helped Anchorfan move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and redesign its infrastructure into decoupled services, supported by CloudFront and auto scaling. With Databarracks assisting in testing and setup, Cloud Pro enabled Anchorfan to scale up rapidly during traffic surges while keeping costs low in calmer periods, improving reliability and global performance.

Anchorfan

Michael Grime

Founder