Case Study: DARTDrones scales for the Shark Tank surge with Kinsta

DARTDrones serves 1 million page views in 6 hours with Kinsta

DARTDrones, a provider of hands-on drone training and certification across the United States, faced the challenge of ensuring their WooCommerce website could handle an enormous surge of traffic from an appearance on the television show Shark Tank. They needed a hosting solution that would guarantee 100% uptime to avoid crashing during this critical event and partnered with Kinsta to prepare for this "Shark Tank Effect."

Kinsta implemented a solution using its scalable cloud infrastructure, which included isolating the site in its own container, scaling CPUs, increasing PHP threads, and troubleshooting WordPress bottlenecks. This resulted in a 50% reduction in page load times and allowed DARTDrones to successfully serve over 1.2 million requests in a 6-hour period with zero downtime, securing $300,000 in funding during the event.

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