{"id":1177,"date":"2015-03-16T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:39:56","slug":"inversoft-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/inversoft-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversoft Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>After doing their best to make it work, the developers at Inversoft had to accept\u00a0one\u00a0simple truth: The public cloud solution that hosted their development environment was impeding their ability to serve their customers.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/inversoft-case-study\/#About_Inversoft\" >About Inversoft<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/inversoft-case-study\/#The_Challenge\" >The Challenge<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/inversoft-case-study\/#The_Solution\" >The Solution<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/inversoft-case-study\/#The_Future\" >The Future<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_Inversoft\"><\/span><b>About Inversoft<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For nearly a decade, companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 have turned to Inversoft for help managing their online communities. Inversoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cleanspeak.com\/\" target=\"_blank;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CleanSpeak<\/a> profanity filtering and moderation software makes it simple for companies to confidently provide online forums and chat functionality, without the administrative hassles.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Challenge\"><\/span><b>The Challenge<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Initially, Inversoft relied on a public cloud provider to host their development and test environment. \u00a0However, problematic lapses in services occurred far too frequently. Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli explains, \u201cCloud providers are aggressive about upgrading their hardware because they want to be competitive, but it\u2019s problematic when they schedule downtime. They\u2019d tell us they just bought a bunch of new servers and they want to move our instances around, so they\u2019re going to have to take us down at a certain time.<br \/>\nBut then they\u2019d never really come back up right. Because of underlying structural changes, things didn\u2019t always work perfectly. That was a major pain point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another obstacle was a lack of performance. With customers sometimes sending thousands of messages per second, it is important that Inversoft runs demanding performance tests to ensure proper throughput with their software. Unfortunately, their cloud provider\u2019s servers were not always up to the task. \u00a0\u201cI couldn\u2019t understand why our performance tests were failing so badly,\u201d said Pontarelli. \u201cSo we ran some quick tests. I essentially ran a million operations on the public cloud instance, and then I ran the exact same operation locally. It was immediately obvious that we\u2019d get much faster &#8212; \u00a0and most important to us &#8212; consistent performance by moving away from a public cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Solution\"><\/span><b>The Solution<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To meet the growing needs of their business, Inversoft moved their deployment environment to a locally hosted Iris 1181 rack mount server from Pogo Linux and have been happy with the results ever since. Not only have they achieved greater performance consistency but their overall build and test times have gone down significantly. \u201cAs soon as we deployed our first Pogo server, we were able to get our build and release times down from over two hours to about twenty minutes!\u201d In addition Inversoft was able to get consistent performance for their test suite, no longer having to restart tests caused by their previous cloud server having uneven performance.<\/p>\n<p>The experience with their Pogo infrastructure and running their workload locally has influenced what Inversoft now recommends to their own customers. \u201cWe advise our clients not to start in a public cloud if they can avoid it. You really need to make a decision.\u00a0Is performance, security and stability more important, or is it horizontally scaling, spinning up instances in a minute, and having this dashboard for managing all your services? A lot of companies have to work their way through the process of figuring that out. Beyond certain limits, there\u2019s nothing we can do to make the cloud services any faster.\u201d In search of better performance and reliability for their customers, Inversoft plans on offering a complete hosted and managed solution, custom built for the demands and uptime requirements of their software.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Future\"><\/span><b>The Future<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Noting that businesses are often building their online communities on top of decade-old technology, Inversoft has responded by designing two new services from the ground up, incorporating modern APIs to make online communities both more flexible and easier to manage. The new services, called Gather and Passport, provide a very customizable and scalable forum platform, and also ease the complexities of user account management. Pontarelli explains, \u201cWe\u2019re looking at helping\u00a0brands build online communities. If you want to set up a chat system in one of your games, or you want to set up a forum where people can talk about your products, the software currently available is very old and outdated. We saw a clear opportunity to elevate the online community experience by developing a next-generation solution.\u201d Judging by the success of their previous products, it is no surprise that they already have customers lining up for the new offerings.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);\" \/>\n<p><i>To learn\u00a0about how Pogo can help you solve the issues your organization is facing, please call us at 888-828-POGO, or email <a title=\"Sales at PogoLinux.com\" href=\"mailto:sales@www.pogolinux.com\">sales@www.pogolinux.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing their best to make it work, the developers at Inversoft had to accept\u00a0one\u00a0simple truth: The public cloud solution that hosted their development environment was impeding their ability to serve their customers. 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