A four-hour investigation task, automated to eight minutes. The infrastructure had to keep up.
UserSearch.com serves over one million users per month, including law enforcement, cyber security professionals, and investigators.
For a platform used in active investigations and court preparation, downtime isn't just inconvenient. It directly affects live cases.
See how the platform scaled from a shared server script to a self-managed VPS environment without a single disruptive migration - and what that infrastructure foundation looks like today.
For a platform used in active investigations and court preparation, downtime isn't just inconvenient. It directly affects live cases.
See how the platform scaled from a shared server script to a self-managed VPS environment without a single disruptive migration - and what that infrastructure foundation looks like today.
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1M+
users per month on the platform
users per month on the platform
20 years
scaling without changing provider
scaling without changing provider
100%
Focus back on
business growth
Focus back on
business growth
✔ VPS & dedicated resources
✔ Root-level environment access
✔ Root-level environment access
✔ Cloudflare-integrated security
✔ SSL & managed hosting
✔ SSL & managed hosting
In the case study:
Why downtime on an investigative platform is different
When law enforcement and security professionals depend on your platform for active investigations, reliability isn't a feature — it's the product.
Building complex infrastructure without a sysadmin background
A self-taught developer navigating server administration, security configuration, traffic routing, and scaling — and what support actually looked like in practice.
From shared hosting to self-managed VPS — without disruption
How UserSearch.com moved through managed hosting, VPS, and dedicated server environments over nearly 20 years without a disruptive migration or provider change.