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What are tips for keeping website up on Black Friday? (due to large number of hits)

10th November 2013

My answer to What are tips for keeping website up on Black Friday? (due to large number of hits) on Quora

Serve as much of your site as possible using Varnish, and/or consider a dynamic content CDN such as www.fastly.com

Posted 10th November 2013 at 1:42 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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