SINGAPORE – Love, Bonito, Singapore’s largest blog shop and ecommerce store, announced today the successful move to a next-generation ecommerce platform. The operations department had to choose between various vendors and solutions to arrive at the final product, which could successfully handle their large traffic volume, and provided a very pleasant experience for their customers.
Initially, Love, Bonito was a blog shop running on a hosted blog service, and manually processed orders as they came in. However, it soon overgrew that platform, and needed an full-fledged ecommerce solution that allowed their customers to purchase, in real-time, their items, and see actual quantities left in stock, as well as be able to collect and process orders and payments automatically.
“Our issues were that we’d experience peak traffic at over 6000 simultaneous users and connections, which even a single, powerful server running the latest hardware, couldn’t handle,” said Frederick Yap, director of Love, Bonito.
Since Love, Bonito fully operates online, the smooth operation of their website is absolutely essential. Not only is displaying information important, but the truly critical factor for Love, Bonito is to have a responsive website that can also allow customers to checkout, and allow the company to collect and process orders, anytime, anywhere. This is especially true during special launches that attract a large number of people.
After reviewing various vendors, Love, Bonito chose Vodien Internet Solutions because of their 24/7 SuperSupport, expertise in complex hosting infrastructures, and availability of high-performance server hardware configurations.
“When Love, Bonito told us of their situation and their requirements, we knew that they’d need a clustered environment, and we setup an environment utilising multiple web and database servers, on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) so that Love, Bonito would have no problems with both server load and bandwidth. The choice to utilize a CDN was a strategic one, mainly to ensure the fastest access to the website for Love, Bonito customers. With the geographically-distributed CDN, customers are ensured that they get the fastest access to the website’s content,” said John Lee, network engineer, Vodien.
The current infrastructure is able to handle the current number of customers very well, but to ensure that their customers get a smooth checkout process even in the future, Love, Bonito placed a large emphasis on their technology infrastructure and made sure that it would be able to scale upwards with their rising traffic and resource demands.
About Love, Bonito: Love, Bonito is the largest blog shop and fashion ecommerce store in Singapore. For more information, visit their website at http://www.LoveBonito.com
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