[WEBINAR] Is Your Website Ready for Black Friday? Prepare for Peak Traffic with Cloudways

​Why Join This Webinar?

​Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring increased traffic, higher customer expectations, and added pressure on ecommerce businesses and the agencies managing their websites. Slow page loads, malicious bot traffic, outdated plugins, or insufficient monitoring can create problems when your store needs to perform at its best.

​Join Cloudways for a practical session on preparing your business for the biggest sales season of the year. Our product expert will walk you through four key areas of Black Friday readiness and demonstrate how to manage them directly from the Cloudways Platform.

​1. Speed & Performance

​Learn how caching and content delivery help your website serve pages efficiently during traffic spikes. We'll demonstrate Cloudways Breeze, Varnish, and Cloudflare capabilities, including the settings you should review before launching your campaigns.

​2. Security & Bot Protection

​Discover how Cloudflare Enterprise security features, including Web Application Firewall (WAF), Rate Limiting, Browser Integrity Check, and AI Crawler Blocking, can help you manage malicious requests and unwanted automated traffic.

​3. Automation & Maintenance

​See how Cloudways Site Manager helps simplify WordPress maintenance through Quick Updates, Safe Updates, scheduled updates, and centralized management—so your team can spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time preparing for sales.

​4. Monitoring & Recovery

​Learn how to monitor server and application resources, identify potential bottlenecks, configure backups, and prepare a recovery plan before making important changes to your website.

​Exclusive Offer for Cloudways Customers

​Join the session to see these features in action, learn how to prepare your website for Black Friday, and unlock an exclusive server-scaling offer for Cloudways customers, revealed during the webinar!

​What You'll Learn

• ​Configure and review caching settings to improve website performance during peak traffic.

• ​Understand how Cloudflare Enterprise WAF, Rate Limiting, and Browser Integrity Check help protect your website against malicious requests.

• ​Manage supported AI crawler access through Cloudflare's AI Crawler Blocking feature.

• ​Use Cloudways Site Manager to manage WordPress plugins and themes, run Quick or Safe Updates, and automate supported maintenance tasks.

• ​Monitor CPU, RAM, disk usage, bandwidth, and application-level metrics to identify potential performance bottlenecks.

• ​Configure backups and understand the recovery options available when something goes wrong.

• ​Identify when to optimize your website, when to investigate application issues, and when scaling server resources may be appropriate.

• ​Learn how eligible Cloudways customers can claim the exclusive scaling offer.

​About the Session

​Join Cloudways for a practical, demo-driven webinar designed to help ecommerce businesses and digital agencies prepare for Black Friday.

​Each section will combine actionable recommendations with a live demonstration of the relevant Cloudways Platform features, showing you where to find the settings, and how to use them in your own workflow.

​Whether you run an ecommerce store or manage multiple client websites, you'll leave with a practical four-pillar readiness playbook to help you prepare before the holiday sales rush. We'll also answer your questions live and share the presentation and additional resources after the session.

​Save your spot and get your store ready for Black Friday with Cloudways.