Our client is a famous entertainment agency that is active on YouTube. They have launched an artists’ selection program which needs an online platform for voting every week. Some of the participants will be eliminated each round.
Challenges
– No add-on functions can be added to existing website
– No technical support to handle voting campaigns
– Hard to calculate the voting percentage & proportion
– Can be a target for attack – need DDOS alert
– Need regular check to detect bot & voting behavior
– Duplicate domain & IP address votes will make results unfair
Solutions
Website Development
– Customized website
– Handle different rounds of votings in weeks
– Allow users to change & update their votes
– Countdown functions on the website
Cloud-based admin panel
– 1st layer protection: Google reCAPTCHA to check bot & voting behavior
– 2nd layer protection: AWS server to check IP & Cloudflare to block IP
– Block suspicious domain & ban IP addresses
– Afford 50K – 100K votes per seconds during peak time
– Statistics of votes with total percentage & proportion
– Allow edit & remove invalid & duplicated votes
Outcome
– New website supported the functions of elimination for each round
– Enable blocking of domains on the banned list
– Technical team monitored real-time status & prevented DDOS attacks
– Maintained fairness of the online election process
– Monitored real-time voting & statistics via the dashboard
