Case Study: Christmas.com keeps site online during 12x traffic DDoS attack with Cloudflare

Christmas.com - Customer Case Study

Christmas.com is a popular holiday site built around the idea that “Christmas is for Sharing,” offering Family Pages, wish lists, games, recipes and even a high‑tech Naughty List. During the busiest time of year in early December the site was hit by several large DDoS attacks that knocked it offline and drove traffic up 12x, threatening the holiday experience for visitors worldwide.

Christmas.com put the site behind Cloudflare’s proxy and was live in minutes; Cloudflare immediately absorbed the attack traffic at the edge, kept the site online, and restored performance for global users. The rapid mitigation and worldwide CDN let the team focus on the site instead of the attacks, delivering safety and speed to Christmas.com’s visitors.

Christmas.com

Alan Bailward

Systems Administrator