RedAtoms Success Story
RedAtoms is a Beijing-based SNS Game developer and has one of the largest games on Facebook, with 250,000 DAU and 1.5 million MAU less than a month after launching. Such growth has many challenges such as scaling the system, reliability, hardware costs, and performance. With NetCloud's Server Management Service, RedAtoms has already been very successful in launching this major new game, which continues to scale smoothly at low cost, up to millions of DAU.
THE Challenges:
- Difficult to find professional IT staff
- Unreliable systems at high load
- Need to continually update and optimize systems as they grew
- Expensive server costs
- No resources to cover 24x7 for the U.S. Facebook market
- Did not want to build IT or try to find junior people for such a large-scale game
THE Solutions:
NetCloud helped RedAtoms reduce the numbers of servers on Amazon to just a few, to prepare a scaling architecture for millions of users, and to run the system 24x7 as it grows. Optimize DB and system architecture with sharding and advanced load-balancing:
- Use high-availability to avoid any single point of failure
- Monitor 24x7 for China and U.S. Time, checking over 1000 items every 5 minutes
- Rapid response to any system problems or heavy loads
- Enhanced security to avoid hackers or other problems
- Continual optimization as system grows to millions of users
THE Results:
RedAtoms saved 75% of their server cost reducing servers and building a faster, more reliable, more scalable system, ready for 10x of growth and millions of users.
- Can run the entire system on 1-2 servers with millions of users
- Fully redundant, shared, scalable system built for 10X current load
- Reliable, scalable system providing excellent performance to users
- Happy customers and increasing revenue at lower and lower cost per user
