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This is worth the read, thanks. What fraud did you experience? How did you transition from (presumably) VPS -> whatever -> current high availability hosting.
by sixtofour 15y ago
This is worth the read, thanks.
What fraud did you experience?
How did you transition from (presumably) VPS -> whatever -> current high availability hosting. What prompted you to start each transition, "we have enough money to do it" or "we have X, Y and Z problems?"
- garrettdimon 15y agoThe fraud was someone that was using us to validate stolen credit cards. They ran about 100 test transactions before we could lock it down. It took a while because we didn't want to detrimentally affect our customers just to stop it. So, it cost us some money in transaction fees, but beyond that, it wasn't a big deal. As far as the transitions, it was partially cost and having extra cash and partially just being ready for it based on growing traffic or new functionality. It was never the same set of motivations. Fortunately, we never grew so fast that we didn't have time to scale with the growth. So, it was a combination of "things are slowing down a bit" and "we have the money to take the next step" and "we ought to have a better hosting environment".
- vailripper 15y agoWhich HA environment did you go with?
- garrettdimon 15y agoWe went with Rackspace's Cloud Servers. We're using their load balancers with a couple of app servers, a background processing/search indexing server, and 2 database servers for a master/slave setup.