Managing extreme spikes.
WHAT IT DOES
When traffic exceeds a threshold, additional visitors are placed in a queue and admitted as capacity allows.
WHEN IT MATTERS
Ticket sales opening A product launch Anything where demand arrives in a concentrated burst
WHY IT HELPS
Without it, a spike exhausts your resources and nobody can complete a purchase. Everyone fails together.
With it, a proportion of visitors proceed normally while others wait, and transactions complete.
THE AVAILABILITY
A paid feature. Check what your plan includes.
THE ALTERNATIVE ON A FREE PLAN
Prepare properly: server-side caching, optimised assets, and telling us in advance so we do not schedule optional maintenance.
Consider whether the event genuinely needs the capacity, or whether staggering it would work.
WHETHER YOU NEED IT
Most businesses do not. It is for genuinely concentrated demand.
If your sales arrive steadily, ordinary caching is sufficient.
BEFORE ANY LAUNCH
Test the checkout under normal conditions first. A spike exposes problems that already existed.
