Case Study: Abbey Press achieves seamless 24/7 e‑commerce availability with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

Abbey Press - Customer Case Study

Abbey Press, a St. Meinrad, Indiana–based web retailer of religious and inspirational gifts, relied on its e-commerce site for a growing share of revenue—about $50,000 daily by 2002. Frequent outages caused by a single-point-of-failure shared storage MSCS setup led to lost sales (including multi-hour and day-long downtime), and the company needed a flexible, scalable high-availability solution to protect its expanding online business.

Working with Dell, Abbey Press deployed Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Availability in a “shared-nothing” configuration with Dell Big IP load balancing, replicating two IIS and two SQL servers in real time. The change delivered seamless automated failover, continual site access without added storage or heavy resource demands, a fast migration completed before peak season, and significant cost savings versus alternate hardware/RAID options—preserving orders and reducing downtime.

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