Case Study: Grepsr achieves scalable, cost-efficient web crawling with CloudSigma

How CloudSigma can match your scalability and cost-efficiency requirements

Grepsr is a cloud-powered web scraping service that helps businesses extract, normalize, and deliver public data through XML, spreadsheets, APIs, and a data store. As its customer base grew, Grepsr needed a scalable, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure to crawl millions of websites on demand, but its previous provider, Rackspace, used rigid VM bundles, slower support, and higher costs. Grepsr also wanted stronger data protection and a secure data center location, especially in light of privacy concerns after the NSA Prism scandal.

CloudSigma provided the flexible IaaS platform Grepsr needed, allowing it to provision exactly the CPU, RAM, and storage required and deploy its preferred software without changes. With CloudSigma’s Swiss-based cloud and fast provisioning, Grepsr was able to scale from thousands to millions of pages, spin up servers in under a minute, and avoid latency issues for US customers. The company reported saving about 40% on yearly cloud computing operating costs, with Rackspace costing more than twice as much, while also improving performance, ROI, and data privacy.

Grepsr

Amit Chaudhary

Co-Founder