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Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 A picture is worth a thousand words. Over 70% of search engine users regularly search for images of products before buying them. I don’t...

This article was originally published in TotalRetail on March 21, 2019. According to Webscale’s recent State of E-Commerce Infrastructure report, 6.4 percent of online merchants cited downtime as their biggest...

The holiday shopping season last year broke all records in terms of e-commerce revenues. Yet, online stores remained plagued with performance, availability, and security issues. We conducted a survey of...

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...

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...

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is talking live to merchants, and hearing about their challenges first hand. We learn a lot in the process, often getting...

This article was originally published in Internet Retailer on Feb 7, 2019. Consumers spend billions of dollars online between October 1 and December 31, especially during the holiday shopping season....

Despite the arrival of the cloud over a decade ago, e-commerce infrastructure (especially in the mid-market) continues to struggle with the physical hardware challenges of dedicated hosting. Some managed hosting...

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...