DNSstuff.com is the leading source for on-demand troubleshooting and problem-solving tools for DNS and networking issues. The 100,000 users who visit DNSstuff.com each day rely on the site when they are experiencing critical DNS and network configuration problems. Any downtime can have a serious impact on customers’ businesses as well as on DNSstuff.com’s revenue and reputation.

Customer:                           DNSstuff.com

Vertical:                              E-Commerce (DNS Diagnostics)

Business Challenge:            When businesses have critical problems with email, websites, or connectivity, they turn to DNSstuff.com. Sixteen million unique users access the site annually and it produces about 15,000 DNSreports for users each day.

DNSstuff.com’s hosting provider offered failover/system monitoring that checked the company’s 17 servers every 8 to 10 minutes. When a server went down, traffic was redirected to a backup server. But the company found that the 8- to 10-minute delay was resulting in an unacceptable amount of downtime for the site.

F5 Solution:                        F5 BIG-IP GTM and LTM

ROI:

• Reduced downtime from minutes to milliseconds
• Increased reliability for its customers
• Improved the scalability and reliability achieved through intelligent traffic management by taking load off the servers through compression and SSL offload
• Increased scalability to continue improving the services it offers its customers

Case Study

F5.com                 http://www.f5.com/pdf/case-studies/dnsstuff-cs.pdf