Case Study: Cdiscount achieves accelerated site performance and peak-traffic resilience with Citrix NetScaler

Cdiscount Website has accelerated performance with Citrix NetScaler

Cdiscount, a leading French e‑commerce site with about 800,000 daily visitors and highly visual, frequently changing pages, faces extreme traffic spikes (up to 5×) during sales events and sustained high load thereafter. To keep response times excellent and support features like parallel testing of old and new site versions, the company needed a more powerful, flexible load‑balancing solution than its previous appliance.

Cdiscount deployed Citrix NetScaler in front of server farms across two data centers, gaining high throughput capacity (designed for 50k–100k requests/sec), advanced request rules and caching, SSL acceleration, and granular traffic steering. The result: sales peaks were handled without congestion, application availability and performance improved (including internal web services), and the platform now supports ongoing operational agility and planned expansion to balance database servers.

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