Case: Xkies

Search engine for highly original gifts up in the clouds with Jitscale.

About Xkies

Xkies offers first aid to Dutch web consumers who need help shopping online for perfect gifts. Visitors are treated to a wide range of gifts that can be determined by age, gender and personality traits. While Xkies provides the selection, the actual transaction is handled by the sites of the respective online stores. The site’s gift catalogue is comprised of gifts of over 150 stores while new presents are added on a daily basis.

Jitscale & Xkies

Jitscale provides the complete cloud computing-based infrastructure for Xkies, which includes 24/7 support. Jitscale’s support ranges from the operating system to the application layer (on a per-hour, per-server basis) while scaling over multiple clouds. In this way, Xkies is ensured of optimal performance and stability at minimal cost.

Why choose for Jitscale?

Visitor numbers are hard to predict, which holds especially true in the case of a freshly launched website. To counter this uncertainty, Xkies decided on Jitscale’s cloud computing infrastructure as a launch platform. Jitscale’s platforms are ensured of enough capacity during peak moments, courtesy of the automatic scaling process that deploys fully configured servers within two minutes. When visitor numbers decrease, the platform scales down to match the situation. Jitscale effectively eliminates the need to finance overcapacity in infrastructure and support. The immediate cost benefits offered by this approach empower Xkies to keep informing its customers about unique gifts during peak hours and during less hectic times.

“As Jitscale takes care of the managing of capacity and support of the platform, I can afford to completely focus on the quality of my product“, states Annemarie de Leng, who started the company alongside Diederik Plug.

Summary

In the wrap-up below you will find the key performance indicators and how they have improved by switching to Jitscale.