Case Study: The Boonedock’s achieves nonstop connectivity and thousands saved with Thinix RocketFailover Autopilot

Boonedock’s ‘Strikes Oil’ With New RocketFailover Service

The Boonedock’s is a busy convenience store and gas station in Arnolds Park, Iowa that serves roughly 500,000 customers a year and depends on Internet connectivity for pump and register credit‑card processing. Repeated ISP outages — sometimes lasting up to eight hours — damaged revenue and customer satisfaction, so owner Joe Newlin turned to Thinix for a redundant connectivity solution, selecting Thinix’s RocketFailover Autopilot service to provide automatic, affordable failover and monitoring.

Thinix installed a RocketFailover Autopilot device plus iStatus monitoring (including ConnectionValidation) without disrupting daily operations, providing automatic failover in seconds, real‑time alerts, and ongoing remote monitoring. Since deployment The Boonedock’s has run with no service interruptions, staff stress has dropped, Thinix even identified and helped remediate an unsecured Wi‑Fi issue, and Joe Newlin reports savings “well into the thousands just in the past month,” demonstrating clear, measurable business continuity benefits from Thinix.

The Boonedock’s

Joe Newlin

Owner/Operator