{"id":2795,"date":"2017-11-20T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webscalenetworks.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2023-12-29T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:24:09","slug":"prepare-for-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/blog\/prepare-for-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Black Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Event Network<\/a> knew something was up when they noticed an increase in DDoS attacks in June 2015.<\/p>\n

In the run up to Black Friday, that same year, they experienced multiple outages which continued throughout the cyber weekend. As a company that manages over 100 online gift shops on behalf of museums and cultural centers all across the US, that meant downtime for multiple sites serving nearly half a million customers a month, resulting in lost sales of more than $1 Million.<\/p>\n

Event Network’s architecture prior to working with Webscale posed many challenges for them. Their managed hosting provider was expensive, delivering page load times in excess of six seconds, and leaving them exposed to frequent DDoS attacks and application layer attacks. They were also stuck having to warn customers against running large marketing campaigns in case the overwhelming traffic brought down the site.<\/p>\n