by Graham Bell
28. November 2011 12:07
Today ebuyer.com, the computer and technology etailer, launched a £1 clearance giveaway. As they hoped, the demand was high but perhaps they didn't expect their capacity constraints to bring the entire site down with such a bang!
Within minutes of the website stalling, eBuyer.com found a tirade of critical posts on their facebook page and I'm sure a number of their staff scratching their heads saying "why didn't we spot this as a possible issue?"
The fact is, just because your website runs well in your normal day-to-day opperations, before you embark on a significant scale in demand, you must be sure your services can cope. Cloud based hosting is an option, the cloud gives you the flexibility to scale as your demand increases and scale back when demand reduces. Often such changes to capacity can be tweaked in realtime meaning no reboots or significant outage times.
eBuyer.com, we hope you manage to the fix the issue quickly and as always are more than happy to assist your scalability in the future so such problems don't happen again.
