“Where things stand today at 1WorldSync, from an infrastructure perspective, are night and day from where they were when I first started. One cannot measure the stability and peace of mind that CraftyPenguins has brought to 1WorldSync.

Perhaps the biggest compliment I can give is that when I state to either Engineering or DevOps that the CraftyPenguins team is looking into something and that this is their recommendation, there is no longer second guessing or pushback that there is a better solution; they know that what your team has explored every possible option and this is what is best for 1WorldSync.

The CraftyPenguins team are truly the unsung heroes of 1WorldSync.”

After connecting with Crafty Penguins through DigitalOcean’s customer service, Clint immediately felt the difference. “My initial conversation with them was amazing — it felt like 15 years of sleepless nights just melted away,” he says.

The Crafty Penguins team managed the migration with virtually zero downtime, enabling Clint to step away from day-to-day server management. Today, Plan to Eat runs staging and production environments powered by DigitalOcean Droplets, intentionally overpowered for peak reliability and speed. Backups are handled through Volumes detachable block storage, ensuring data integrity and quick recovery.

Crafty Penguins also developed a robust deployment process with seamless rollback capabilities, while DigitalOcean provides a dependable infrastructure backbone. In over two years since the migration, Plan to Eat has not experienced a single major outage — a marked improvement over previous AWS operations.

“There’s no single point of failure,” Clint notes. “When large companies on AWS face issues, our website keeps running smoothly — and that feels great.”

“They’ve transformed our computing infrastructure from a constant source of stress to a pillar of reliability. As a SaaS business owner, I’ve come to realize that it’s not just about having an application, it’s about having a supported infrastructure that’s continually operational, secure, and efficient. That’s where Crafty Penguins comes in.

Before partnering with them, server downtimes and unexpected server hitches were a recurring nightmare. Every glitch, every momentary lapse, wasn’t just a technical hiccup—it was a disruption to our service, our reputation, and our peace of mind.

Enter the team at Crafty Penguins. With their round-the-clock monitoring and their team of dedicated engineers, they’ve transformed our computing infrastructure from a constant source of stress to a pillar of reliability. They aren’t just “there” when things go wrong—they’re always a step ahead, preemptively addressing potential issues and responding with lightning speed when intervention is needed.

Their dedication and expertise have given me something invaluable: confidence. Confidence to focus on expanding my business, confidence in the knowledge that our systems are in the best hands, and above all, the confidence to sleep soundly at night, ensuring our digital operations run seamlessly.”

Before working with Crafty Penguins, our servers were running — but it sometimes felt like we had to say a little prayer to keep them that way. I used to sleep with my phone on full volume, ready for the inevitable 3 a.m. alert. When it came, I’d be frantically Googling fixes, hoping I wouldn’t accidentally delete everything by following a 12-year-old Stack Overflow post.

Now, things couldn’t be more different. If something breaks, 99% of the time, someone from the Crafty Penguins team has already spotted it and is working on a fix before I can even log in (just like last night!). These days, if an issue happens at 3 a.m., I just sleep through it and catch up on the details in the morning.

In the past, we avoided rebooting or updating servers out of fear something would go wrong. Now, I regularly get a friendly Slack message asking if it’s a good time to update or reboot — and everything just works.

What I appreciate most about Crafty Penguins (aside from the great name) is how effortless it is to work with them. If I need a change, I just send a message on Slack, and someone knowledgeable takes care of it. I don’t have to learn HAProxy or figure out how to migrate to Kubernetes myself — I know it’ll be handled properly and reliably.

I can’t recommend Crafty Penguins highly enough. They’ve completely changed how we manage our systems, and I finally get a good night’s sleep.

Having Crafty Penguins manage our systems saves us time so that we can focus on our core business. At the moment, we serve 25,000+ customers with only two of our own staff members. The team of Crafty Penguins has very in-depth knowledge, is capable of investigating the issues a lot deeper than an average IT provider and is always there for us when we need them.