Influential U is an e-learning provider for ambitious, driven professionals. Their courses, coaching, and consulting services help these professionals learn the power of Transactional Intelligence™, encouraging them to reach farther and build the skills they need to achieve those goals.
When their hosting solution made their website slower and slower until it finally suffered a catastrophic failure with no answer, they called their go-to support at Team Tangible and immediately switched to TangibleXP.
Here’s how that happened.
The problem
“WP Engine was our first attempt at getting on a WordPress-specific host. It started fine, but after a while it got extremely frustrating. We would click on something in the back end and go to another tab as we waited 30 seconds for it to respond.”
– Darryl Anderle, CFO and CTO at Influential U
Darryl Anderle is Influential U’s CFO and CTO. He’s been with the company since its inception in 2010. He built out the very first website for the company, and he’s been guiding the company’s growth ever since. It started with a WordPress site, until they recognized their need for an LMS and transferred their e-learning content to LearnDash. They used WP Engine as their first host, but its performance was severely lacking. Just trying to interact with the back-end — let alone get any kind of work done — took ages.
That’s why Influential U migrated from WP Engine to Kinsta.
“The initial Kinsta experience, while significantly more expensive at $600 a month, was easily two-thirds faster than WP Engine. It wasn’t ever exceptional, but it was completely usable. But just like with WP Engine, it seemed to keep getting slower and slower until the point where it broke.”
– Darryl Anderle, CFO and CTO at Influential U
Kinsta represented a significant upgrade in performance, but that came with a cost. A cost that was paid both in dollars (to the tune of $600 a month) and in their website’s stability. Because while Kinsta was much faster than WP Engine, it eventually led Influential U to every webmaster’s worst nightmare.
It failed. Catastrophically. And never recovered. Joey Anderle, Marketing and Webtech at Influential U, describes how it happened.
“About four months ago, something just broke in the back end. No matter how many calls we made to Kinsta support or adjustments we made on the back end, the website never went back to normal. That’s when we learned about TangibleXP. They spun up a staged environment of our sites and we jumped ship.”
– Joey Anderle, Marketing and Webtech at Influential U
Trust your e-learning site to the experts.
The solution
A flawless migration in almost half the time
As great as a new hosting solution might seem, it needs to overcome a significant hurdle before you start seeing any results. The migration. But when it came time to migrate from Kinsta to TangibleXP, the difference was massive. Not only was the migration seamless, but it took a fraction of the time the team at Influential U expected.
In 30 minutes, they were fully migrated.
“When we moved from WP Engine to Kinsta, I had to hire an outside company, it took a full day, and we had problems. To be able to migrate to TangibleXP at no extra cost and have it done so well? It was a good sign of things to come.”
– Darryl Anderle, CFO and CTO at Influential U
More speed (for less)
Kinsta represented a massive price hike, but it came with a similar hike in speed. Until it broke. With TangibleXP, the team at Influential U didn’t just get a significant boost in speed and performance. They got it for a much lower price. How much lower?
Try a $470 saving each month.
“I’ve been happy with how fast staging environments sync and how easy it is to just download logs and open those up. That’s certainly different from my experience with Kinsta.”
– Joey Anderle, Marketing and Webtech at Influential U
A one-stop-shop
Beyond a flawless migration and massive savings every month, Influential U saw one major advantage with TangibleXP that other hosts can’t match. The team handling their hosting (TangibleXP) works closely with the team handling their LMS (Tangible). That means their hosting solution is designed by a team with specific experience in building and managing online learning websites. An issue with either service can be quickly communicated to the other team, getting things resolved much faster.
“There’s a lot more accountability. Hosting and website work are in the same company, so no one’s going to win anything by trying to send you off to fix it elsewhere. There’s much more confidence that everybody’s in it to win it, from hosting to front-end and back-end. Tangible’s a real partner.”
– Darryl Anderle, CFO and CTO at Influential U
Get the only hosting provider that gives you more for less.
The results
- A flawless migration in 30 minutes.
- Faster, more stable hosting.
- 78% monthly savings on hosting.
- A one-stop shop for web development and hosting.
“The TangibleXP hosting experience is one of the most seamless and efficient hosting solutions for our LMS platform. Ever.”
– Joey Anderle, Marketing and Webtech at Influential U
The TangibleXP difference in a word
“If you want the most seamless transfer possible for better speed and a better all-around experience, do it with TangibleXP.”
– Darryl Anderle, CFO and CTO at Influential U
Trust your e-learning site to the experts.
