1. Keep it simple

Both your website, your user experience and your checkout flow, all contribute to a good conversion . At busy times you can choose to focus on a few core products or services.

You can place certain products in the spotlight on a simplified landingpage. Less is more in this case. You better place 

 2. Update your software

It is crucial that you ensure that your online shop is running on the most recent version at all times.
New versions contains security updates and are usually faster than before.

A good hosting partner will always ensure that the hosting infrastructure is up-to-date under the hood.  You should focus on the applicative part. 

3. Faster because of caching

At Hosted Power you can count on a mountain of experience in terms of caching. We support systems such as Redis, Opcache, MemCached or Varnish,  proven technologies that ensure that pages look the same for every visitor (e.g. the landing page) and are loaded faster.

Other pages that are unique to each user, such as the shopping cart, benefit less from this. 

4. Provide a scalable environment

Modern hosting providers have the option to expand your production environment live, if it threatens to reach the limits of capacity.
By investing in a scalable cloud environment, you significantly increase the chance that your webshop will remain available during the peak period. 

5. Talk to your hosting partner

Despite the fact that the most reliable hosting parties use proactive monitoring, visitors peaks can occur so quicly and accurately that the monitoring is not sufficient and it's better to inform your hosting partner in advance. 

In this way, they can advise and help you take steps that better arm you during the extremely busy sales moments in your online store.
For example we provide extra eyes that watch the back-end of your application. 

The end of the year is one of the most important times of the year for many online shops. That is why it is important to maintain good communication with your partners at all times. They can help you to make these days a success.