by Martin Pachol | Feb 8, 2022 | Blog, magento-adobe, uptime
One of the biggest reasons Magento stores prefer cloud-based hosting is the idea that the store can easily scale up during periods of heavy traffic, such as Cyber Monday or during a flash sale. Ideally, this scaling capability should perform automatically based on...
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog, performance, uptime
Picture this. You’ve spent weeks preparing for a massive online sale. Your products are priced right. Your social media influencers are primed and ready to help drive shoppers to your storefront. And they do their job! The sale begins and, within minutes, you’re...
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog, performance, uptime
Back in 2013, Amazon.com lost $66,240 per minute when it crashed. That was six years ago! Today, it’s a well-known fact that you can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions) in revenues for every hour your e-commerce site is down. And when you’re trying...
by Andrew Humber | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, performance, security, uptime
While a lot of merchants saw solid growth this year, the all-too-familiar downtime, performance, and bot/cyber-threat challenges continued to plague many. Every storefront will run into these at some point, especially if they are experiencing rapid growth, the...
by Andrew Humber | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog, cloud-hosting, uptime
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced its worst outage in history last week, going down for four hours, and crippling nearly 150,000 websites. The cause – human error – or to be more specific, a typo during a routine billing system debug that caused more servers to be...
by Andrew Humber | Dec 1, 2016 | Blog, cyber-week, performance, security, support, uptime
While most people were sleeping off their turkey-induced food comas and spending time with family and friends over the long weekend, Webscale’s support team were hunkered down, laser-focused on one thing, and one thing only – proactively monitoring our...
