The Energy Detective (TED) is a consumer based product that helps home users track their energy usage on a per-device or cross-household level. When Energy Inc, the makers or TED needed to upgrade their site with an easy-to update content management system (CMS) and the addition of a custom storefront, they came to Cyber Sprocket Labs.

Within months we had ported their old static-page driven site to our new custom site builder. They could now easily update their own content without getting developers involved, and better yet – the system protected them from inadvertently breaking their site design. The staff at Energy Inc. soon became experts at the system and added new content as well as new product models to the site.

The site also started with a simple storefront module. It allowed Energy Inc. to upload new products and track inventory levels to ensure customers knew when an item was put on backorder. The new storefront module allowed Energy Inc. to easily show and sell their wares while automating part of the order process on the back end.

Soon the orders started to roll in and Energy Inc. needed more sophisticated order tracking and management. Updates were made to add automated interfaces with FedEx for real time shipping quotes anywhere in the US and it’s territories. New order search and tracking features where added so that Energy Inc. knew what shipped, what was backordered, and what was being returned under their return merchandise authorization policy.

Energy Inc’s TED product was doing well, and the media started to notice. So did Google. As one of the first partners in Google’s new energy management program, Energy Inc. realized that their shared Linux server was not going to be able to handle the new influx of traffic. Luckily, Cyber Sprocket Labs had already been working on the Amazon Web Services cloud for more than 18 months. We knew our way around the system and helped Energy Inc. navigate the maze of cloud computing and served as a guide to the new platform. Energy Inc. decided to make the move to the nearly infinite scalability and on-demand compute environment of cloud computing.

Cyber Sprocket Labs helped migrate Energy Inc over to the Amazon Cloud in less than a week. No downtime while at the same time providing a significant boost in processing power… just in time for Google’s big announcement.

Congratulations on your success, Dolph! Glad we could be there to help get your web services off the ground!

Technical Overview

Services Provided

• Custom website builder
• Custom shopping cart
• Custom order processing and management system
• Porting to Amazon Web Services Cloud

Platform Details

• RH based Linux on shared server
• Cloud Computing
• Apache 1.x/2.x
• PHP
• MySQL
• Javascript

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0 Comment   |   Posted in Cloud Computing,MySQL,PHP,portfolio by lcleveland on December 17, 2009