Stay up on sale day, stay profitable the rest of the year.

About four weeks before the event we run load tests against a production-like environment using traffic patterns from your last peak, then fix what breaks: database connection limits, cache hit rates, autoscaling thresholds and third-party timeouts. We agree a scaling plan and a war-room roster, pre-warm capacity where the cloud provider requires it, and keep engineers on call through the sale with a rollback plan for every release.

Usually yes, at a reduced scope. Using a hosted payment page moves most requirements to the gateway, but your storefront still needs to prove it cannot tamper with the payment flow, typically through an SAQ A or SAQ A-EP and quarterly vulnerability scans. We scope your environment, run the required scans and penetration tests, and document the controls so your acquirer accepts them.

In most storefronts we find savings in over-sized databases, always-on staging environments, unattached storage and inefficient container images. We measure before changing anything, apply reserved or savings plans to steady workloads, schedule non-production environments and set alerts on cost per order. Changes are made during low-traffic windows and each is verified against latency and error rates.

We deploy WAF rule sets tuned to your traffic, rate limiting on login and checkout endpoints, and bot management where the volume justifies it. Login flows get monitoring for credential stuffing patterns and we recommend controls such as device fingerprinting and step-up verification. The penetration test covers these endpoints so the controls are verified, not assumed.