[HTN News] Dealing with success

When Your Site Gets Too Busy

Here’s a great scenario – your e-commerce site is suddenly drawing unprecedented traffic and sales are climbing through the roof. But you hit a point of traffic load where the site slows down, so folks have trouble getting to that “purchase” button and many start falling away. The people falling away might not have had a good enough experience to return. What to do?

If you are on a cloud server, such as the Cirrus family of HTN Cloud Servers, no problem. Upsize the server at will and downsize it again as needed. With the utility billing inherent in cloud servers – by the day or by the hour – you are paying for the larger server only for the time that you need it.

If you are still having more traffic than the site can readily handle even on larger servers, you might be well served by putting your static content in an off-site service like CloudFlare or delivering your content with an off-site delivery management solution like CloudFront and/or adding a load balancer and extra servers (discussed in last month’s newsletter) to the mix.
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