On August 20, 2011, the website PRCPassers.com, one of Auza.Net’s free online services, published the results of the July 2011 Nurse Licensure Examination. Being the 2nd website to publish the results, the first being the official PRC website, PRCPassers.com generated a massive spike in website traffic which was equivalent to about 150 times the normal traffic it would get in recent weeks. Being hosted on Auza.Net’s Cloud Site Web Server, a service that automatically scales up the capacity of the server as needed, the website endured the spike with flying colors.
During the 24 hours after the results were published, PRCPassers generated about 150,000 pageviews when normally only just about 1,000 pageviews would be generated. This was an unprecedented event for Auza.Net. The last traffic surge happened on DYRDAM.com and BoholNewsDaily.com during the May 2010 elections but the surge was just a mere 20 times normal daily traffic.
Auza.Net uses the same cloud site web server for all its website management service clients allowing the company to guarantee that in case the client’s website become popular, it will stay up and running. This is much unlike the “unlimited” web hosting services offered by other companies which are really limited and would shutdown a website that would generate massive traffic. Other “unlimited” web hosting providers simply slow down a website intentionally so that they don’t have to shutdown a site but this makes viewers leave the website because they would load slowly.
by: Jerome Auza