Case Study: Blackpepper achieves faster, more secure e-commerce performance with Fastly

Blackpepper accelerates website performance to safely support 2.5 billion monthly requests for images and video

Blackpepper, a leading Auckland-based e-commerce services provider, needed a way to scale rapidly during pandemic-driven traffic spikes while improving security against DDoS attacks. Its existing CDN and in-house tools could no longer meet demand, and the team wanted a single platform that could handle content delivery, image/video optimization, and protection for its hosted ecommerce sites.

Blackpepper chose Fastly, using its CDN, Image Optimizer, shielding, and DDoS/bot protection to front all customer websites. Fastly helped Blackpepper process and upload images faster, reduce manual steps, and deliver pages much more quickly; the company also gained better infrastructure visibility and smoother migration to AWS. The image and video traffic for all customer websites was migrated to Fastly over five weeks, supporting 2.5 billion monthly requests with noticeably improved performance.

Blackpepper

Alain Russell

Chief Executive Officer