E-Commerce Platform
Retail Tech • $45M Revenue
The Challenge
Spending $85K/month on AWS with costs growing 30% annually. 200+ EC2 instances for stable traffic was inefficient.
The Solution
Migrated to 12 powerful bare metal servers. Replaced expensive RDS with self-managed PostgreSQL clusters.
SaaS Analytics
Business Intelligence • $28M Revenue
The Challenge
Processing 50TB daily. Compute and egress fees were eating margins. AWS Redshift bills were unpredictable.
The Solution
Deployed Kubernetes on bare metal. Switched to ClickHouse for analytics and MinIO for object storage.
FinTech Platform
Financial Services • $15M Revenue
The Challenge
Strict PCI compliance requirements made public cloud complex and expensive to secure properly.
The Solution
Colocation in PCI-compliant facilities with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). Improved security posture.
Why Mid-Market Wins
Stable Workloads
Most companies in this bracket have predictable traffic. They pay a "flexibility tax" for elastic cloud they don't actually need.
Managed Service Premium
Replacing RDS/ElastiCache with open-source equivalents on NVMe hardware often yields 10x performance per dollar.
Egress Costs
For data-heavy apps, bandwidth fees can be 30-50% of the bill. Bare metal providers often include generous bandwidth.
Team Readiness
Modern tools (Kubernetes, Ansible) make bare metal manageable for small DevOps teams without hiring armies of ops engineers.