Four hundred horsepower, insane torque, listening to the engine moaning out its song. Millions of people could relate to this. One day this mass of high octane consumers will realize they need to check your e-shop for a new GT supercharger, just because they are watching a motor show that was recently reborn. Thousands of page hits per second and two million new contacts in an hour. Can your rig handle it?

With Kentico 9, we bring you new Web Farm and Auto Scaling support built from the ground up. Cloud is slowly taking over as the preferred hosting environment, and cloud providers are enabling access to auto scaling technology for all subscribers. We, therefore, decided to rebuild our Web Farm support to accommodate better the needs of users for easy automatic setup and health tracking capabilities.

Now that you have your application in Azure and everything is awesome (think the Lego Movie), let’s talk about keeping it running well and performing optimally. Any hosting solution can be used for your site, but Azure Web Apps have a lot to offer in terms of monitoring, updating, and maintenance of your site. This blog is focused on those features and on demonstrating how you can leverage them for your deployment.

We all know cloud is great, and Kentico agrees. We are trying hard to make our system easy-to-adapt to various cloud scenarios to improve scalability and stability of your solution. I was working on several cloud deployments recently, and wanted to throw some basic concepts for auto-scaling configuration at you.

Karol shows the features of Kentico CMS 6 that will help you build highly performing and scalable websites easier and faster. He focuses on best practices and recommendations to achieve faster page load, take off load from your website so it gets more room for breathing.

15 tips for optimizing your websites performance.