Case Study: SnagAJob.com achieves 99.9% uptime with Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager

Riverbed Helps SnagAJob.com Achieve 99.9 Percent Uptime in the Cloud

SnagAJob.com, a fast‑growing online hourly job marketplace with millions of members and major brand customers, needed a continuously fast, reliable site because even short outages cost significant revenue. The company found its existing hardware traffic manager couldn’t meet its 99.9% uptime target and wanted a solution that would integrate with a new private cloud/virtualized environment.

SnagAJob deployed Riverbed’s Stingray Traffic Manager as a VMware virtual appliance—running multiple instances and clusters—to replace its hardware load balancer. The solution delivered automated health checks, seamless traffic diversion, an API for draining and restoring nodes, and rapid on‑demand scaling into the private cloud, enabling the company to achieve 99.9% uptime and faster, more flexible operations.

Snagajob

Matt Reidy

Director of IT Operations