Case Study: HOSTING achieves elastic, programmable, cost‑aligned cloud traffic steering with F5 Networks' LineRate application proxy

HOSTING Creates a Versatile Cloud Solution for Mid-Sized Enterprises

HOSTING, a Denver‑based cloud services provider for mid‑sized enterprises, needed a customizable, cost‑effective traffic‑steering solution that could scale elastically and deliver single‑tenant features like intelligent traffic management and SSL offloading. To meet customer demands for programmability, visibility and billing flexibility while staying competitive against larger providers, HOSTING selected F5 Networks’ LineRate application proxy software.

F5 Networks’ LineRate gave HOSTING a developer‑friendly, VM‑ready platform with a full REST API and Node.js support, enabling deep orchestration and monitoring integration, rapid instantiation, and subscription pricing that aligns costs with bookings. As a result HOSTING now delivers customized, scalable services (citing Natural Insight as an early customer), eliminated extra licensing for traffic management/SSL offload, improved uptime and performance, increased traffic visibility for capacity planning, and reduced overall IT cost and maintenance effort.

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Darrell Hyde

Chief Technology Officer