How to Prepare Your Website for Peak Traffic

Providing exceptional web performance during peak sales periods can be challenging because organizations are expected to ensure scalability across an extremely wide range of application and infrastructure elements, including those that lie beyond companies’ firewalls. Today’s feature-rich websites and applications include components, content and services delivered not just from inside data centers, but from a number of third-party providers. For example, an online storefront may include shopping carts, search engines, user reviews and analytics all from specialized third-party providers.