Test Your Website Now to Avoid a Nightmare Before Christmas

There's still time for both small and large IT departments to make sure their infrastructure is up to the challenge. Here are three things IT can do to guarantee a happy holiday season:

1. Start monitoring everything now. Sometimes the faults and deficiencies in a website take time to reveal themselves. Companies pour energy into monitoring their website just before the holidays only to discover a serious error that, with enough time, might have been apparent and fixable months before. In essence, if a website is going to fail under heavy load, chances are the problem is already identifiable. Monitoring systems are supposed to be preventative medicine that are best at identifying and addressing risks before they ever become a problem.