E-Commerce: Load Scaling & Hosting
When seasonal promotions, newsletters, or campaigns multiply your traffic, your hosting must keep up — automatically, without manual intervention, and without downtime. We design and implement scalable hosting architectures for Shopware 6: auto-scaling, load balancers, containerised deployments, and forward-looking capacity management. Black Friday is a planned load, not an emergency.
Challenges you'll recognise
- Your shop became slow or unstable during the last seasonal promotion or campaign peak, and you don't know whether the infrastructure will handle the next event.
- Your infrastructure doesn't scale automatically — during traffic spikes, someone would need to manually spin up new servers, which in practice is too slow.
- Deployments of new shop versions regularly cause brief downtime because there is no rolling deployment strategy.
Auto-Scaling Architecture
Static server configurations are either too large and expensive or too small and break under spikes. We implement auto-scaling groups that automatically spin up new instances under rising load and tear them down as load decreases. Shopware-specific requirements like session management without server affinity and shared file storage are handled correctly.
Load Balancer & Availability
A load balancer distributes traffic across multiple application servers and makes your platform resilient to individual server failures. We configure health checks, session persistence strategies, and failover behaviour so a single server failure remains invisible to users.
Load Tests Before Events
Discovering capacity limits under real load is much cheaper than discovering them during Black Friday. We simulate realistic user paths with load testing tools, identify bottlenecks in database, caching, and infrastructure, and implement optimisations before the traffic event occurs. The result is a documented capacity profile with known limits.
Containerisation & Deployment
Containerised Shopware deployments with Docker and Kubernetes enable reproducible environments, fast horizontal scaling, and rolling deployments without downtime. We build CI/CD pipelines that automatically move new releases through staging environments and deploy them safely to production — deployments become routine rather than risk.
Good to know
Auto-scaling requires stateless architecture
Shopware instances that store sessions on the local filesystem cannot scale horizontally. Centralised session storage in Redis and shared file storage or object storage are prerequisites for functional auto-scaling — without these foundations, load balancers don't realise their potential.
Load test results have an expiry date
A load test from last year has limited value with a grown catalogue, new plugins, or changed usage patterns. Regular load tests — especially before seasonal events — are the only way to know current capacity limits.
Deployment downtime is avoidable
Rolling deployments with a load balancer that only adds new instances to rotation after a successful health check make deployment downtime invisible to users. This requires containerised deployments and a correctly configured zero-downtime pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you prepare a shop for Black Friday?
Can we scale on existing infrastructure or do we need new systems?
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