Case Study: Kualo Web Hosting achieves all-flash performance, zero storage outages and reduced TCO with StorPool

Kualo - Customer Case Study

Kualo, a London‑based web hosting and public cloud provider, was struggling for years with storage performance, reliability and the high cost of scaling their cloud infrastructure. They selected StorPool (using its StorPool storage software, deployed as an “SSD Hybrid” across converged storage nodes) to address the need for high IOPS, redundancy and a cost‑effective, scalable model.

StorPool replaced multiple legacy solutions with small clusters (initially 6 nodes) running on reused hardware and a redundant 10G network, delivering up to 120,000 IOPS and 1.7 GB/s on early nodes and more than 250,000 IOPS and 4 GB/s on newer 3‑node deployments. The StorPool deployment eliminated storage‑related outages, reduced TCO through pay‑as‑you‑grow month‑to‑month licensing, freed engineering time, enabled infrastructure consolidation without extra staff, and let Kualo scale capacity and pursue new revenue opportunities.

Kualo

Craig Luke

Operations Director