Case Study: about.me achieves zero-downtime AWS migration and faster development with mLab

mLab Seamlessly Migrates about.me’s MongoDB Database from AOL to AWS

about.me, the personal web hosting service for single‑page online profiles, needed to move its MongoDB infrastructure out of AOL’s datacenters when the company bought itself back from AOL and migrated its stack to AWS. Lacking in‑house MongoDB expertise and requiring zero downtime to avoid disrupting users, about.me selected mLab as its MongoDB hosting provider to handle the database migration and provide a managed, cloud‑based MongoDB platform.

mLab migrated about.me’s MongoDB from AOL to AWS with zero downtime, simplified the deployment architecture, and enabled instant, self‑service provisioning of clusters (previously taking weeks) so developers can spin up environments in minutes. By using mLab’s managed services—including automated backups, monitoring and alerting via mLab Telemetry, and slow‑query analytics—about.me reduced hardware needs, improved performance, and dramatically accelerated development and testing.

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Paul Nues

System Architect