Have you read the first half of our series? In part 1, we covered two key essentials in Keeping your website online during a traffic spike, including installing a caching plugin and upgrading your PHP version. Our first part starts off with some great tips on how to maintain your website during busy times. So without further ado, you’ll find the next set of steps below! Tip #3: Install a CDN! A what? CDN stands for “Content Delivery Network”. What it does is creates a copy of the static parts of your website (the stuff that doesn’t change so much, like text and images), and then stores multiple copies of it on high-powered servers all over the world. Then, when a visitor comes to your website, instead of loading all of the content from your real server, it loads a..

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