The Webscale Blog

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...

The e-commerce space is continuing its relentless growth. It is a segment that has made such irrevocable change to consumer buying habits that it is hard to imagine life without...

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,...

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...

According to Internet Retailer magazine, Thanksgiving weekend was the largest online shopping weekend ever. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25, generated $6.4 billion in online sales, according to Adobe Analytics. Just...