Website Resilience: Lessons from Züri Fäscht Case Study

Amid the excitement and chaos of high-traffic events, ensuring your website remains robust and responsive is no small feat. The case study, "How to Prepare Your Website for High-Traffic Events" of Züri Fäscht, Switzerland's largest festival, discusses the meticulous preparation and collaborative effort required to deliver an exceptional user experience during such events. In partnership with Previon Plus, amazee.io, a leading hosting provider, played a vital role in optimizing the website's performance and reliability.

For Züri Fäscht, which draws around two million visitors every three years, the stakes were high. The primary goal was to provide festivalgoers with essential information about the event's offerings and activities. To meet this challenge, a two-pronged approach was adopted: optimizing the website's application and hosting, with a keen focus on the Content Delivery Network (CDN). The application, powered by Drupal, was designed to reduce the database workload significantly by leveraging the visitor's device for processing. In parallel, amazee.io's CDN specialists fine-tuned the CDN configuration, achieving cache coverage above 99%, ensuring optimal stability, and minimal strain on the infrastructure during the event.

The successful outcome of the Züri Fäscht case study underscores the importance of meticulous preparation, collaboration, and proactive engagement with hosting partners. By aligning the website's architecture with user experience, optimizing caching via the CDN, and fostering direct communication channels among stakeholders, the event's organizers were able to navigate high-traffic surges seamlessly. Learn more about the case study here.