Surviving a Traffic Spike with Speed and 100% Uptime

Surviving a Traffic Spike with Speed and 100% Uptime

Surges in website traffic is the stuff marketer’s dreams are made of… and in some cases, developer’s worst nightmare. Whether you pay big bucks for a sponsorship, launch a highly anticipated product, or, by sheer happenstance become associated with a social trend or cultural event, having a spike in unique site visitors is goal #1. But, if the software and hardware of your site isn’t prepared for the fluctuation, your victory will surely prove to be exactly opposite, and instead of expanding your breadth of reach, you just might turn away, and turn off, site viewers as a result of slow speed, poor performance or downtime. So what can you do to make sure that your site is always up to speed (pun intended), during a surge, or otherwise? Listen up.  

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