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Today, the agency serves more than 600 clients in 28 states,  offering professional online marketing services and industry-leading  software platforms to over a dozen industry segments, notably without  any outsourcing. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In 2015, efelle used six different hosting providers to handle their  clients’ infrastructures. Each of them suffered from performance issues,  and efelle was forced to deal with the constant headache of their  servers going down. Then, when they switched to managed services they  found it was impossible to keep their costs down. When efelle found  DigitalOcean, they found a solution that was a one-stop-shop and was  both reliable and predictable.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Why DigitalOcean?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Moving to DigitalOcean also meant reduced overhead. “We can do more  with less as we don’t need to use client budget to build  infrastructure,” notes systems administrator Cameron Van Orman. The  agency could use DigitalOcean’s out of the box solutions, and then add  customizability as needed. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"An additional benefit was the reliability around cost: “There are no  surprises and customers don’t get unexpected expenses,” says Van Orman.  “For example, given the generous bandwidth pricing we rarely have to  think about excess bandwidth costs.” They can now offer even more  services – managing their clients' DNS, snapshots and custom images –  without having to ask clients to pay more.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As efelle began the process of migrating over their customers to  DigitalOcean, they worried about what the migration of legacy apps would  look like. But once they started using it, they noticed that there was a  lot of flexibility. It didn’t matter which version of Ubuntu they  planned to use; they could just do it. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"They found DigitalOcean’s extensive collection of tutorials and  documentations extremely useful, in addition to the helpful  million-strong community of developers. Van Orman shares that  DigitalOcean has great customer service, but teasingly says they don’t  really use it that often. If a customer continually needs support, he  reasons, then there’s an issue with the product. Not an issue with  DigitalOcean: “Support is there as a bonus,” he says. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the first partners to join DigitalOcean's Solutions Partner Program, efelle is excited to continue to run their client work on DigitalOcean.","spans":[{"start":34,"end":74,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/partners/solutions-partners/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With DigitalOcean, efelle creative doesn’t need to hire and manage  additional people to handle their infrastructure, because the services  efficiently scale with the business. “That allows us to focus budget on  the things our clients want.” ","spans":[]}],"content2":null,"copy1":"Industry","copy1_text":"Digital Agency","copy2":"HQ","copy2_text":"Seattle, 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