Overcoming Labor Costs from Maintaining Performance

DOT Fasteners, part of Morito Scovill Americas, supplies fasteners for everything from footwear and fashion to military and medical applications. With roots over 200 years deep, they needed a modern Magento 2 hosting solution that could match their legacy of reliability and performance.

Challenge

Their Magento 2 site was originally hosted on a single EC2 instance under a generic AWS setup from another provider. That approach bundled MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch on one node, limiting performance and flexibility. Security requirements for PCI compliance also came with rising costs and management overhead.

Solution

JetRails re-architected their AWS environment using purpose-built services and a modular approach. Key components were offloaded to the right AWS tools—MySQL to RDS Aurora, Redis to Elasticache and Elasticsearch to AWS OpenSearch. EC2 instances were transitioned to Graviton processors for better efficiency. JetRails also deployed security tools including Cloudflare WAF, bot mitigation and Sansec malware scanning, alongside strict access controls.

Results

47%

Faster page load times

75%

Reduction in time spent on security management

With the new setup, DOT Fasteners runs a faster, more secure Magento 2 site with the ability to scale up or down as needed. Rightsized infrastructure reduced costs, improved performance and removed the maintenance burden that came with their previous setup.

“We were experiencing increased labor costs in maintaining performance and security until the JetRails team migrated us to AWS.”

Chad Henry
System Administrator

Lessons for Other Brands

Generic AWS hosting setups often bottleneck performance and increase overhead.

Brands on Magento 2 need environments tailored to the platform’s architecture.

Offloading services, rightsizing infrastructure and deploying the right security tools can result in measurable speed gains and operational savings.

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