9GAG, Inc. is the Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com, an entertainment website where users can post content that they find amusing and share it across social media networks. According to the company, 9gag.com generates millions of Facebook shares and likes per month, has more 850,000 Twitter followers, 78 million global unique visitors and receives more than 1 billion page views per month. 9GAG has a small team of nine people, including three engineers to support the business.
9GAG’s website is popular with a large and growing audience, and the company wanted the site to be highly available. After the website had three outages in quick succession, 9GAG began to look for a new service provider. “We also wanted to improve our ability to back up our information online and be able to easily support increases in the number of uploads and traffic volume,” says Derek Chan, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.