Is Your Business Website Prepared For Black Friday?

Prepare to kick off the festive season in style with a Black Friday sale!
We are now approaching the busiest season in the business calendar, and it all starts this Friday with the notorious Black Friday weekend. Competition for sales this Friday will reach fever pitch, and tempers will fray in the streets as customers do battle to get the best deals.
Black Friday has for many years been the prerequisite of physical stores, while online sales have been saved for the following Monday (known as Cyber Monday). However, with the boom of the digital age in full swing and online shoppers constantly on the lookout for a bargain, Cyber Monday has crept forward and now many online retailers often slash their prices to coordinate with their physical counterparts.
There is a huge demand for Black Friday sales all over the world; the tradition now extends beyond the USA thanks to a global online community. Your website visitors might want to snap up a deal from you on Black Friday, and thanks to the wonders of mobile shopping they can do so without having to brave the infamous Black Friday queues.
How can VPS.NET help you prepare your business website for Black Friday?
The Cloud has become an increasingly valuable ally to online businesses who see a fluctuation in the traffic to their site. Its flexible nature means that it can scale up and down to cope with spikes and lapses in demand of resources. Below are some VPS.NET Cloud Server features which make for a great e-commerce platform:
Power Pack
Power Pack could be perfect for handling the extra traffic to your website on Black Friday. Designed to give you more resources for your money, Power Pack will step in when things get busy, boosting your bandwidth allowance on demand. Power Pack can double your server power (RAM and CPU) and in most locations provides unlimited bandwidth. Find out more here.
Self-Heal
Due to the nature of technology things do unfortunately go wrong, and hardware failure could lead to downtime. Our cloud is designed to be reliable by eliminating single points of failure to prevent your server from any downtime. Multiple servers work together to power your site, so if one server fails it’s simply removed from the cloud and your service continues unaffected.
Premium Support 24/7/365
Enhanced Support includes Assisted Start-Up, Server Density monitoring and priority response. Server Density monitors the health of your server and provides real-time alerts . All reported issues receive a priority response from our support team, 24/7/365. Click here for more details.
How should you be preparing for Black Friday?

• Plan your deals, and make the changes to your website to make sure they’re central and immediately visible
• Promote your Black Friday sale on your social media channels to make sure the word is out about the hot discounts!
• Make checkout process as simple as possible for your customers. Black Friday shoppers are looking for a smooth, quick transaction.
• Prepare for the month ahead! Black Friday is simply the beginning of the busy Holiday season!

To find out more about how a Cloud Server solution from VPS.NET could power your business, visit VPS.NET.