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'The cloud computing environment that Metal Toad built provided significant savings on our traditional in house hosted environment while delivering a more reliable site, and providing a better customer experience.'
— Gerard Lomonaco, VP Operations/Technology, Sony
Business problem: Expensive, unreliable legacy tech
Sony Rewards is the destination for fans to earn prizes for enjoying Sony content. But the site had a popularity problem: during hot promotions, the traffic surge would overwhelm their servers and crash the entire site. And general site unreliability was undermining conversions.
The issue was outdated tech: Sony Rewards was hosted on old physical IBM servers. There was no way to scale up capacity when needed, and the clunky legacy infrastructure led to unreliability.
Technology solution: Elasticity and reliability in the cloud
Metal Toad’s first order of business was to get the site’s capacity up to snuff with an elastic cloud solution using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now their server capacity can stretch to meet traffic demands.
A number of other innovations have improved the site’s reliability. With Amazon Cloud Formation, we can repair in a few hours issues that used to take days to resolve. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud gives the team full control and avoids unexpected downtime. Microsoft Always On Clustering reduced the number of servers needed.
Impact: More revenue, less cost
In past years, site outages during Black Friday weekend caused Sony Rewards to lose customers. Last year, we doubled their server capacity—and kept the site humming (and generating revenue) all weekend.
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These improvements save money, too. Eliminating the capital investment in physical servers frees up over $150,000 a year, and reducing server space saves around $200,000 a year on infrastructure operations.
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- October 4: Pat said that this video clip of Vanna in a bikini sweeping would go viral on YouTube. So, I uploaded it. Looks best in HD 720 mode!
- September 20: Daily pictures added permanently to the Picture Index: 9/19, 9/18.
- September 14: The new season of Wheel of Fortune begins Monday September 17.
- September 14: The Forecast Page will be closed until reruns begin again, around the end of May.
- August 24: Don’t forget: even though Wheel of Fortune is airing reruns until September, there is still a brand new winning Spin I.D. on every show, six days a week, Monday through Saturday. So: don’t forget to tune in to the show or look here after the show to see if your Spin ID is the winner!
- August 16: From now on, Daily Pictures will be updated every show day (6 days a week) at about 7:45 P.M. Central Time. However, past pictures will continue to be added in to the index slowly. Go ahead and check out today’s pictures!
- June 19: Reruns have started, so The Forecast Page is up and running again. Impress your friends and family by reading the puzzle clues and solutions before the episode airs and then solve them during the show before anyone else does!
- July 23: A new set of pages, Daily Pictures, is now active. The idea is to post one high res picture each of Pat, Vanna and the contestants from every show one day after the show airs! I will be adding pictures from the few dozen past shows that I still have recorded when time allows, but it is very time consuming…so please don’t expect past shows to appear soon!
- May 17: Play Wheel of Fortune Tweetstakes all this week. 50 lucky people will win $500 each. Details, including step-by-step directions, found after the Winning Spin ID page.
- May 17: CWP Logo image link fixed on all pages for Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7.
- Apr 23: The Past Spin IDs button is now operational. Please note that only the 2012 Winning Spin IDs are available in the new format.
- Apr 23: Finally the Past Spin IDs for 2012 is nearly completed. Expect to see that button available on the menu about 9 PM Central Time tonight.
- Apr 17: Contact Us page “polished” and checked for consistent appearance with 4 major browsers. Now displays correctly in Internet Explorer.
- Apr 14: Bonus Puzzle page “polished” and checked for consistent appearance with 4 major browsers. Now displays correctly in Internet Explorer.
- Apr 12: Home page “polished” and checked for consistent appearance with 4 major browsers.
- Apr 12: Spin ID page “polished” and checked for consistent appearance with 4 major browsers. Past winning Spin ID buttons operational except for 2012.
- Apr 4: Menu button Winning Spin ID has been fixed.
- Apr 4: Menu button Contact Us is now working.
- Apr 4: Menu button My Wheel Audition is now working but still uses the old format.
- Apr 4: All non-working menu buttons have been disabled.
- Apr 2: You can just follow the arrows for daily information. For other pages, the menu on the left will take you there.
- Apr 2: Currently, only the daily pages are displayed in the new format. Other pages will be updated when time permits.