Three Ways to Handle Bursts of Server Overload
So what is this about? E-commerce site going down to user overload. Why and when it happens and how to avoid it.
I’m a gamer through and through. The day my family bought our first pc, I was six years old and the first thing I did was to install all the demo games. Since then I have never looked back. Fast forward 20-years and I found myself playing the single most popular game in pc gaming history - “World of Warcraft”. Now why is this relevant to a Magento online store?
“World of Warcraft” goes through very easy to follow cycles. User subscription declines followed by Blizzard releasing a new expansion. The problem is that Blizzard always and without fail chronically underestimates the amount of returning players and doesn’t get enough servers to handle the load, which leads to game crashes and huge login queues.