Background
Evil Hat Productions partnered with Rambunct to migrate from legacy third-party hosting to an AWS Graviton-powered infrastructure with a complete Drupal 9 upgrade, improving website performance, scalability, and e-commerce capabilities for their award-winning tabletop RPG community.
The Challenge
- Drupal 7 nearing end-of-life posed security and feature limitations for community engagement.
- Legacy hosting hindered performance during game launches and traffic spikes.
- Poor mobile optimisation and plugin support hurt user experience and content delivery.
- High hosting costs and vendor lock-in limited technical flexibility and growth.
Our Solution
- Deployed Graviton2/3-based Amazon EC2 instances with auto-scaling for high-performance, cost-efficient hosting.
- Upgraded Drupal from version 7 to 9 with responsive design and streamlined content workflows.
- Migrated e-commerce, community, and download systems into a flexible, scalable Drupal framework.
- Implemented PHP 8.x, MySQL 8, and modern AWS security tools for performance and compliance.
The Result
The migration resulted in significant gains in performance, cost efficiency, user experience, and platform scalability.
- 60% improvement in site performance and page load times using Graviton-optimised instances.
- 40% hosting cost reduction through efficient use of EC2 resources and modern infrastructure.
- 99.9% uptime ensured seamless access during game releases and peak traffic periods.
- 85% boost in mobile usability, improving access for gamers on tablets and smartphones.
