Case Study: WhyDonate reduces database costs and eliminates downtime with PlanetScale

WhyDonate saves 80+ work hours and pays 8× less with PlanetScale

Whydonate, a leading global fundraising platform, faced significant scaling challenges and high costs with Google Cloud Platform's CloudSQL. Their lean development team struggled with time-consuming schema migrations that required extensive DevOps support, often taking up to 80 hours to fix errors, which hindered their velocity and impacted their SEO-dependent business model.

By switching to PlanetScale's database platform, Whydonate eliminated their database downtime and migration anxiety. The solution from PlanetScale resulted in an 8x reduction in costs and saved the team over 80 work hours previously spent on database management. This increased development velocity, allowing features to be released sooner and contributing to greater revenue opportunities.

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