Established since September 2014 in Aveiro, Portugal, Askfor provides a service that aims to optimize resources and accelerate processes to all kind of restaurants, providing agility services. With an ever-increasing array of mobile devices on the market combined with more people going online globally, Askfor had to seek a solution to meet the high demand of these type of services. The company relied on a unwieldy solution of shared hosting to deliver its content, but with the high demand and use of the application not only by end customers, but also by the partners, that solution was not the most reliable and represented a great financial effort to support such infrastructure.

ChallengeDuring the research for the perfect solution to meet this set of requirements, the company wanted to ensure a quick response time of the application to users demands in any location. Therefore, since the application at this stage is available only in Portugal, made sense to host the data in a local data center within the region.

“Investing in hardware has always been something that never made sense to us, because it meant spending money in a vital period of the company’s growth”, said Jorge Costa, co-founder and CIO of Askfor. He also pointed out that “once the restaurant business is a business with peak hours, the lunch and dinner times are when the application it’s a heavier load for the infrastructure, so is extremely important to consider the possibility to scale server resources according to the amount of requests”.

SolutionAskfor has considered lots of cloud based solutions, to find a way to address it challenge, before deciding for Cloud Jelastic, the Lunacloud PaaS platform which allows to have automatic elasticity in any Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js or Python application, changing the resources (RAM and CPU) as the application requires. From the moment that the load of the application increases, the platform simply add more resources. When the load drops, resources are reduced automatically.

OutcomeWith Cloud Jelastic, Askfor gets excellent results at every level. The company has accelerated its time-to-market, saved time and resources with server configuration and environments setup to host the app and website, has reduced costs by a 50% compared to the previous solution and still avoided higher costs by eliminating the need to acquire it own hardware infrastructure. In addition to all these advantages, it does not need to worry about the load of the application, knowing that Cloud Jelastic will adapt resources depending on the instant application needs, without compromising the performance, and wasting resources that could cause additional costs.

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Askfor app cuts its hosting costs by half with Cloud Jelastic

Askfor, creator of a mobile application that streamlines restaurant services, needed a better solution to deal with the high number of users requests to its application. To rely on the scalability responding to all these requests, the company chose Lunacloud’s PaaS solution, Cloud Jelastic. As a result, the company saved a lot of time with setup and provisioning servers to host their environments. Also, it doesn’t have to worry about scalability of the environments, as this is ensured by Jelastic, on a fully automatic way, reaching around 50% savings in hosting infrastructure annually.

About AskforCountry : Portugal

Founded in : 2014

Askfor is a Portuguese software development company that has created an innovative application with thesame name, which aims to speed up the order service in any kind of restaurant.

Customers of any associated restaurant, may place their orders on their mobile phone application, reducing the waiting time, customizing their orders, reviewing the comments of others customers and accessing the offers available in each restaurant.

It is an innovative platform that aims to revolutionize the restaurant service, promote service effectiveness and allow the sharing of tips and reviews.

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