DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH LOAD WEBSITES

Choosing the right architecture is an important issue that needs to be addressed by the owners of high traffic sites. First of all, the resource must be scalable and withstand high loads. Especially if you are creating a website for online booking of accommodation or tickets, an online commerce service, for processing various transactions, etc.

Remember “Black Fridays” that people love so much? It’s not a secret that sometimes e-commerce websites “go down”, unable to withstand the huge influx of users, which translates into significant financial losses.

You might also be annoyed by the fact that you had to wait a long time for a web page to load or for your transaction to be finally approved. You may have even stopped doing business with a company that did not serve customers well.

Slow loading of pages and partial loading of content, crashes, random errors, disconnection from the Internet are possible consequences of the absence of a high-load architecture. This is why it is important to create a software system that can handle high loads. Even if your web project is rather small, at some point there may be an influx of users and you will inevitably face the question of scaling the system.

• A high load begins when a single physical server becomes unable to efficiently process data.
• If one server simultaneously serves 10,000 connections or more, this is a heavy load.
• If you are deploying a web solution on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, you support a high load architecture.

If your web resource cannot withstand high loads, you may encounter the following problems:

• Slow or infinite page loading

• Random errors
• Error connecting to web server
• Partial content download
• Decreased visitor activity
• Loss of clients

Thus, the architecture of the project influences its success. No satisfied customers – no success and no profit. To implement scalable web applications, you need to understand the principles of developing high-performance software solutions.

• Dynamics and flexibility

You never know what exactly will happen to your project tomorrow. It is possible that some minor product features will start to gain popularity, or additional features may be required. Or you decide to promote your app and attract more customers. Therefore, you must be able to scale and handle high loads.

• Gradual project growth

It’s almost impossible to predict audience size for years to come, so it’s best to focus on scalability. It’s the same with the architecture of the application. Step-by-step solutions are the backbone of successful software development. When launching a new product, it makes no sense to instantly provide an infrastructure that can handle millions of users and simultaneously handle their many requests. We recommend using the cloud to host new projects because it can reduce server costs, simplify management, and easily deploy new applications.

In most cases, a new software solution runs on a single server that runs the web server, database, and the solution itself. If you are not building a large project from the beginning, we recommend focusing on the scalability of the product with the ability to use a powerful server that can handle high loads if necessary. This approach can save time and reduce development costs.

The development of high-load sites by our specialists may include the following operations:

• Splitting the database

Each request from a user to an application typically ranges from 10 to 100 database queries. Forking the database on a separate server will improve its performance and reduce the negative impact on other components.

• Moving the database to a more efficient server

In some cases, moving your database to another server may be the only solution for scaling your business.

• Setting up a task queue and balancing DNS

Task queues allow heavy operations to be performed asynchronously without slowing down the main application. While the queue server receives tasks from the web solution, other servers will process them. DNS supports balancing on a round-robin basis, which allows you to specify multiple IP addresses of receiving web servers, called interfaces.

High-traffic site development is an engineering discipline that starts with measuring the performance of an existing system and aligning it with business expectations. The implementation of this task is impossible without daily qualified support from specialists with relevant experience in the development of complex multicomponent solutions and administration of system servers and services.

By ordering a service from us, you will receive the following benefits:

• Confidence in the stable operation of the site under high loads
• Fault tolerance and DDoS protection
• Server disaster recovery

Specialized development teams of AVADA-MEDIA have significant experience with various technologies that are used in high-load systems. We will develop a website of any complexity for your business, which is able to cope with any performance problem.

We design system architectures to provide high compute speed and smooth service with short response times. Our experts leverage the power of load balancing and cloud computing for mission-critical user operations and real-time data processing.