“Why did your website crash? You must have known it would be busy!” To disappointed users, it seems obvious that a company should have put more preventative measures in place before a big traffic spike, and that the only thing that could possibly have gon
We're very pleased to announce that there is now a CrowdHandler plugin for WordPress. Easy to install, easy to use, it means that if you are a WordPress user, you can now integrate a CrowdHandler waiting room with a plugin, instead of using JavaScript.
Isn't it great to see live events coming back? We're very happy to hear from our customers that people are starting to book again. We've also been thrilled to see evidence of pent-up demand, with some very busy on-sales as audiences start to return.
I’m very pleased to announce that you can now provision CrowdHandler on Cloudflare, giving you a waiting room service that works directly from their CDN.
In the last blog post I wrote about why a waiting room is the best way to manage your traffic if a lot of people tend to arrive on your site at a specific time. For sellers of limited-edition products, both physical and digital, this is especially true.
A lot of people approach CrowdHandler thinking they need to choose between paying for an online waiting room, and paying their hosting company for a bigger server. I wanted to explain why that’s usually a false choice.