by Andrew Humber | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog, cyber-week, performance, security
The holiday shopping season of 2018 set new sales records globally for the e-commerce industry. Cyber Monday in the US alone generated close to $7.9 billion in sales, and Alibaba crushed last year’s Singles Day sales record as consumers spent more than $30 billion in...
by Andrew Humber | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, cyber-week, performance, security
A lot has been going on in the e-commerce industry over the last six months. We’re in the middle of an exciting Holiday Season, the largest ever in terms of e-commerce revenues. Cyber Monday 2018 saw consumers spend $7.9 billion in e-commerce sales, making it the...
by SONAL | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog, cyber-week
Looking for 100% uptime during the upcoming Holiday Season? For three years in a row, Webscale’s customers have experienced flawless Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays in addition to other peak sale events, thanks to our patented predictive auto-scaling technology and...
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog, cyber-week, security
Massive global events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday trigger pure online shopping mayhem. According to Forbes, online sales during Black Friday and Cyber Monday amounted to US$12.8 billion in 2016, depicting a 15.2% spike over the previous year. What’s more,...
by Abhishek RVRK Sharma | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog, cyber-week
Some last-minute tax filers got a break last week, courtesy of the IRS website. Despite the tax filing date being extended two days, the IRS had to extend the deadline another day because of a massive hardware failure that brought down their servers. While some...
by SONAL | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, cyber-week
Webscale has a 100% uptime record for 2016 across our entire customer base. In an effort to support our customers through another amazing season for 2017, we put together a list of best practices. These suggestions may help you as well. Production code freeze from...
