Case Study: Digital Firefly Marketing achieves faster load times and minimal downtime with Linode Managed

Digital Firefly Marketing Finds Swift Loads, Scant Downtime, and Constant Performance for Clients’ Websites

Digital Firefly Marketing, founded by John Cashman in 2011 and based in Princeton, NJ, is an internet marketing firm that helps clients get found and convert traffic through SEO, PPC, content and social media, website design and hosting, and reputation management. The company struggled with many clients’ outdated, unresponsive sites and unreliable, low-cost cloud hosts that caused slow performance and frequent crashes, so DFM needed a scalable, customizable hosting partner with global presence and strong uptime.

DFM migrated to Linode Managed in September 2013 and moved clients onto Linode-powered hosting with managed monitoring, backups, and architectural support. The result was faster, more reliable sites—load times improved by about 1–2 seconds, average downtime fell to roughly 15 minutes per year, and servers delivered high I/O and throughput—while Linode’s managed team provided 24/7 monitoring so DFM avoided hiring dedicated ops staff and gained consistent SEO and client satisfaction benefits.

Digital Firefly Marketing

John Cashman

Founder, Digital Firefly Marketing