As Christmas is coming, more and more people are doing their shopping, gift giving, and celebrating the season. Mostly virtual cart as IT boom and supersede the hassle free shopping, most of the companies are doing their stress test on all media and web traffic.Computerworld share some tips on bulletproofing your web. Those are as follows:
Website-bulletproofing tips (Computer World)
- Test early to make sure there's enough capacity and that loads are balanced correctly.
- Make sure traffic predictions are vetted by enough internal stakeholders so you're not guessing what your peak might be.
- Check everything from application servers to your network firewall, all the way down to the speed of your Internet connection -- and check more than twice.
- Have contingency plans in place in case you exceed your traffic expectations. One way to do that is by removing the functionality that takes a lot of processing power or bandwidth, such as dynamically displaying customized information for each visitor.
- If you're going to take your site down for required maintenance, make sure there's another way for people to get to it.
Moreover, one of the billionaire’s of the world, Zappos conducts load testing to be ready on the availability on holiday season. Some advices have brought up for the improvement and quality of service over the web. First is the Prepare, test and review. This is to determine the volume of transactions that need to be foreseen. Next is the over-provisioning via cloud which makes small time online retailer to do the cloud. Lastly is controlling the traffic and talking to your company stakeholders for any thing that matters on the success of investment.

































