Reprieve are a London based charity who use the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners facing the death penalty, from death row to Guantanamo Bay. We've worked with them since 2009 using Django to help them do this.
It began when they came to us with a dilema. Stephen Fry was about to tweet a link to one of their articles about a client of theirs facing the death penalty in China. They'd been warned, however, that the resulting traffic spike from his 1.25 million followers was likely to crash their shared hosting account which wasn't used to coping with anywhere near that sort of traffic. With only a couple of evenings to implement any sort of solution, we came up with a strategy to mirror their site on Amazon's cloud infrastructure, which battle hardened their site ready for the load.
The plan worked flawlesly, and it was then that we took over ownership of Reprieve's Django based apps, and have worked with them since, enhancing their site, campaign tools, database and payment processing applications.
Read more about the technical details of how we used Amazon's S3 to scale up Reprieve's site.
Find out more about the worthy work Reprieve are doing at www.reprieve.org.uk.
