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实例探究 > Case Study: How Portworx Enabled MightWeb to Increase Revenue by Offering a Containeras-a-Service Platform

Case Study: How Portworx Enabled MightWeb to Increase Revenue by Offering a Containeras-a-Service Platform

技术

基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 私有云
平台即服务 (PaaS) - 应用开发平台

适用行业

电信

适用功能

离散制造
产品研发

用例

库存管理
预测性维护
资产跟踪

服务

云规划/设计/实施服务
系统集成

挑战

MightWeb, a hosting company, needed to instantly scale to meet customer demand, which was challenging for the many stateful services they offer like WordPress, MySQL, MongoDB, Magento, and WooCommerce. Most persistent storage options for containers don’t provide both high performance storage for applications like MySQL, and multi-writer shared volumes for WordPress, both hard requirements for typical hosting customers. They needed a solution that could provide high availability, the ability to take snapshots, and the ability to scale.

关于客户

MightWeb is a one-stop shop for hosting needs. They offer everything from shared web hosting, to virtual private servers (virtual machines), and even dedicated servers. As they’ve watched a big part of the industry move to containers, they’ve recently decided to add a container offering to their platform as well. They see their container offering as the perfect service for people who are outgrowing a shared server but don’t want to manage an operating system in a VM. With a container-based platform, the customer can simply stand up a WordPress container or a Magento container, or any other popular web application, and have their website up and running and instantly load-balanced, replicated, and scalable, without any machine or operating system management overhead.

解决方案

MightWeb uses ComputeStacks, which is a container platform specifically designed for service providers like them. ComputeStacks is a scheduler, like Kubernetes is a scheduler. At the very end of the line is Docker running on servers, but everything from what the user interacts with all the way down to the actual Docker container is ComputeStacks. And ComputeStacks has different modules as add-ons. They use the Portworx module for persistent storage. When they evaluated storage options for their container platform, they basically had three choices. They could go with local disks, they could go with a shared NAS, or they could go with something like Portworx. They chose Portworx because it was the only solution that could provide high availability, the ability to take snapshots, and the ability to scale.

运营影响

Portworx enabled MightWeb to increase revenue by offering a container-as-a-service platform for popular stateful web applications like WordPress.
Portworx helped MightWeb increase margins by raising the number of websites that can run on a single host.
Portworx increased MightWeb’s operational efficiency by automatically handling common failures that occur in a dynamic server environment like server failures and network partitions, resulting in MightWeb’s customers getting a scalable website without having to manage any infrastructure or operating systems.