Case Study: CrazyEngineers achieves 330% faster database performance and reliable high-availability hosting with Liquid Web

Liquid Web Helps Engineering Site Handle Huge Traffic Spikes While Speeding Up Database Processes by 330%

Crazy Engineers, a community forum founded in 2005 for engineering professionals, outgrew its original hosting and suffered a debilitating hack that the previous provider couldn’t recover from. The site needed reliable uptime, stronger security, and scalable capacity to handle frequent traffic spikes and growing developer/testing needs.

Liquid Web migrated Crazy Engineers to managed cloud and dedicated infrastructure, added robust security and high‑availability solutions, and introduced an abstraction layer between application and database servers. The result: database processes sped up 330%, the site was engineered to withstand a 70% traffic increase, and ongoing expert support enabled rapid server cloning and responsive capacity adjustments.

CrazyEngineers

Kaustubh Katdare

Founder/Ceo