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SportRx hits peak performance with Upsun

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Upsun
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1,176
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English
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Summary

SportRx, a company specializing in customized prescription sports eyewear, sought a scalable cloud solution to support its rapid 40% annual growth and overcome limitations with its static infrastructure. Initially using a vendor-hosted setup with no redundancy, SportRx faced challenges in upgrading their servers quickly and maintaining site performance under heavy traffic. To address this, they partnered with Upsun, whose agile infrastructure offered automatic scaling, triple redundancy, and reduced website support requests by 80%. This collaboration allowed SportRx to focus more on enhancing the customer experience while Upsun proactively managed performance issues and provided Magento expertise to stabilize the site. Director of Technology Saaed Fattahi noted the significant improvements in system stability and operational efficiency, indicating plans to expand the use of Upsun's capabilities across additional systems.