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Load Testing for Black Friday: Spike, Soak and Stress

Four load tests worth running before Black Friday: baseline, spike, soak & stress. What each one finds, how to build realistic tests & what to watch.

NOVEMBER 10, 2026Read the story
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Server Snapshots vs Golden Images: Which to Build From

A snapshot copies one server as it is today. A golden image is a template for every new one. When to use each, & how to build your first golden image.

Infrastructure
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A database server with port 3306 exposed to the internet beside a private connection to web servers.
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Port 3306 Is Open: How to Lock Down Remote MySQL

If MySQL listens on every interface & port 3306 is open to an IP list nobody reviews, your database is reachable. How to check and close it.

Security
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Two web servers loading images from one shared object storage bucket.
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Object Storage for WordPress Uploads

Moving WordPress media to object storage is the first step to running a site on more than one server. Why it matters and how to move existing files.

Storage
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Two servers each hosting different websites, with one server offline and its sites unavailable.
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Two Servers Isn't Failover: What Real Failover Needs

Splitting sites across two servers spreads the work but not the risk. What failover actually needs, how to test it, and where to start with one site.

High Availability
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Scale Up vs Scale Out: Which Survives a Traffic Spike

Scaling up adds power to one server; scaling out adds more servers. Which fits each part of your stack, the limits fixe & when to scale before a peak.

Optimization & Performance
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Shopping cart above a server platform beside a calendar marking the start of a change freeze.
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Black Friday Capacity Planning Before the Change Freeze

What to measure, load test and fix before your Black Friday change freeze, where the real bottlenecks hide, and what to leave alone until December.

Optimization & Performance
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An in-house server room run by one person beside a managed platform run by a team of engineers.
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Infrastructure Management: In-House vs Managed

Keep building an ops team or hand infrastructure to a provider? Real costs of each, the out-of-hours coverage gap, & when in-house is the better call.

Security
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A layered infrastructure stack with a boundary line marking which layers a managed provider operates.
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What "Managed" Actually Means in Managed Cloud

Managed can mean anything from patches to engineers who run your platform. Which layers are covered, what stays yours & what to ask before you buy.

Security
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