On 03.12.2018, the organizer opened the online registration for the Bocholt Aasee Triathlon 2018 at 12:00.
2000 athletes tried to get a coveted starting place....
As a cloud hosting service provider, we focused on these requirements for the extreme rush of visitors at the time around the official registration. A web server can only handle a limited number of requests and then shuts down. The visitor then gets a timeout or has extremely long page loading times.
Sold out within 7 Minutes!
fluidweb’s cloud hosting concept is scalable at any time and technically capable of absorbing load peaks by temporarily increasing capacity, implementing individual performance requirements and accessing additional resources at any time. This approach is not possible with classic server hosting providers.
Solutions: load balancing
By adding a load balancer and scaling the backend servers, we were able to regulate the rush of visitors and guarantee a fast loading time.
Figure: Network load at login time in megabytes / second
http://www.aasee-triathlon.de