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Loud Awards

Entertainment awards show needed a voting system that would not buckle when campaigns spike. We specced a custom WordPress app with MySQL level protections, rate limiting, and cloud load balancing so votes could scale past ten times the previous high. Fraud checks run inline without knocking out legitimate fans and the UI stays clean on mobile. The production team gets seasonal reset scripts and export tooling they can run themselves.

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Status: Live Timeline: 8 weeks Budget band: $18k to $25k What changed: Built anti-replay voting engine, load balanced stack, and 10x throughput with 99.99 percent uptime.

  • Sector Events / voting
  • Stack Custom WordPress, tuned Linux/Engine-X/MySQL/PHP (LEMP) stack, CDN/caching
  • Performance 3,085 to 33,627 votes; 99.99% uptime
  • Focus Fraud prevention, mobile-first UI, rate limiting
  • Custom dev
  • High-traffic

Context

Previous voting system was duct-taped and failed under real traffic.

Problem

Fragile stack prone to fraud and downtime.

What we did

Built a clean MySQL schema, anti-replay logic, caching strategy, and load-balanced infrastructure.

Result

Votes scaled more than 10x with zero fraud or critical bugs.

Status

Live and battle-tested.

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