The countdown to Cyber Monday has begun. Is your online business ready for the holiday shopping spree? We’re all too familiar with sluggish online shopping experiences that have left us frustrated or caused us to leave the site altogether before we’ve completed a transaction. As the holiday shopping season looms, businesses can’t afford to have their websites slow down, or worse yet, taken down by traffic overload. But when user traffic spikes, servers can be taxed by compute-intensive SSL transactions, large data file requests and memory overloads.
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Avoiding a Crash When the Holiday Hordes Attack
Posted by: Peter Melerud November 8, 2011 08:00 AMThe countdown to Cyber Monday has begun. Is your online business ready for the holiday shopping spree? We’re all too familiar with sluggish online shopping experiences that have left us frustrated or caused us to leave the site altogether before we’ve completed a transaction. As the holiday shopping season looms, businesses can’t afford to have their websites slow down, or worse yet, taken down by traffic overload. But when user traffic spikes, servers can be taxed by compute-intensive SSL transactions, large data file requests and memory overloads.