Get Ready for the Holiday Season with these Web Site Traffic Tips

Filed in Cloud Industry Insights by Angela Bartels | November 14, 2011 11:25 am

The holidays are right around the corner and by now, you should be prepared for the seasonal surge of traffic that is about to hit the web. We recently did a Scaling for the Holidays[1] blog post series on how to prepare for scaling traffic: Scaling Horizontally or Vertically?[2], Caching[3], Web Server Tuning[4] and Load Balancing[5]. Below is a fun infographic with some additional tips on how to prepare for the holiday traffic, web traffic that is.

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Endnotes:
  1. Scaling for the Holidays: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/10/17/scaling-for-the-holidays-a-four-part-series/
  2. Scaling Horizontally or Vertically?: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/10/17/scaling-for-the-holidays-part-1-to-scale-vertically-or-horizontally/
  3. Caching: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/10/24/scaling-for-the-holiday-series-part-2-take-advantage-of-caching/
  4. Web Server Tuning: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/10/31/holiday-scaling-web-server-tuning/
  5. Load Balancing: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/11/07/scaling-for-the-holidays-part-4-load-balancers/
  6. [Image]: http://c179631.r31.cf0.rackcdn.com/Tips_for_Holiday_Traffic-08.jpg

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