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How retailers can prevent website downtime

Boost the reliability of your overall network infrastructure to help avoid losing sales to slow load times or other site issues

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The cost of an outage adds up fast

When it comes to online sales, every second counts and competition is fierce. With more retail options available than ever before, users have zero tolerance for even minor website performance issues, let alone a full-blown outage.

$1.1 million

The amount per hour retailers lose during an outage or downtime

72%

The percentage of retailers that lose customers due to website outages

70%

The percentage of retailers that can’t utilize in-store functionality like signage during an outage

Why do outages occur in the first place?

As networks grow increasingly complex, outages, downtime, and performance issues can happen for a variety of reasons:

One of your critical endpoints - like a CDN - experiences an outage, and you don't have a backup option

Configuration errors or deployment issues bring down critical IT infrastructure

An unexpected spike in traffic, whether malicious or legitimate, overwhelms infrastructure capacity

It's Always DNS

With the right provider, you can leverage the power of DNS to improve overall network resilience

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Massive capacity to easily absorb traffic spikes

Whether from a DDoS attack or holiday shoppers, surges in traffic can overwhelm and bring down your entire network. NS1 provides massive network scale so you can continue to answer every DNS query, promptly.

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API-first design to streamline network management

Customize, integrate, and automate network services with the best API of any authoritative DNS provider

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Outsmart outages with automated traffic steering

Create customized traffic steering policies to automatically route users to the healthiest endpoint

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Add network redundancy, subtract the management hassle

Our Dedicated DNS solution gives you true redundancy with a physically separate network, yet is fully synchronized and managed from the same control plane as your primary DNS

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Learn more about improving network resilience

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How Grubhub built business resilience

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Why retailers are at risk of a network outage on Black Friday

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How Walmart optimizes application performance

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