Essential Checklist: Get Ready for Peak Traffic Season with Fastly
Blog post from Fastly
As peak season approaches, ensuring your website's readiness for increased traffic and demand is crucial, and implementing key strategies can enhance performance, security, and scalability. Techniques such as instant load, through caching, improve user experience by reducing latency, while shielding defends against traffic spikes, ensuring stability and lower costs. Total resilience is achieved by configuring multiple origins to prevent downtime, and rate limiting protects resources without impacting legitimate users. Dynamic lists allow real-time configuration changes, which are particularly useful for events demanding immediate adaptability, and optimization ensures efficient delivery of content tailored to user devices. Fastly's platform supports these strategies, promising speed, resilience, and security, crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and providing a memorable user experience during crucial periods.