Elevate your e-commerce platforms with DigitalOcean and On Tap

Posted: May 20, 2024•2 min read

E-commerce businesses regularly face fluctuating demand—holiday seasons, sales, and other promotions can mean that traffic to e-commerce applications goes up and down dramatically. Especially for smaller e-commerce businesses, the changing demand can be difficult to manage, as businesses want enough cloud resources to be able to serve their customers needs without experiencing downtime, but also don’t want to overpay for resources that aren’t being used. To help solve this problem, DigitalOcean and On Tap have partnered to bring On Tap’s e-commerce scaling solution onto DigitalOcean’s robust cloud infrastructure.

With this partnership, businesses can more easily autoscale their e-commerce platforms, helping to ensure peak performance and cost efficiency. DigitalOcean users benefit from having On Tap’s innovative technology enabling them to have automatic resource adjustment in real-time, catering to fluctuating demands and ensuring uninterrupted service during peak traffic periods, coupled with the reliability and performance of DigitalOcean’s powerful cloud infrastructure solutions.

Key advantages for e-commerce businesses

On Tap currently supports popular e-commerce platforms including Magento, Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, and Shopware. Some of the key benefits of using On Tap and DigitalOcean include:

Tailored scaling solutions: Designed with leading e-commerce platforms in mind, offering an ideal scaling solution for your business needs.
Ease of implementation: Simplify the scaling process with On Tap’s intuitive auto-scaling technology, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Robust DigitalOcean infrastructure: Leverage the reliability and performance of DigitalOcean’s cloud services, providing a solid foundation for growth.
Cost efficiency: Benefit from transparent pricing and a scaling solution that optimizes resource utilization, lowering operational expenses.
Peak performance guarantee: Ensure smooth handling of high traffic, providing your customers with a consistent and enjoyable shopping experience.

This partnership represents a significant advancement in making sophisticated scaling solutions more accessible to e-commerce businesses, enabling them to focus on growth while minimizing the complexities of infrastructure management.

ML-driven real time observability

Additionally, On Tap Cloud delivers seamless automatic resource scaling without downtime by utilizing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms within an observability layer that processes a variety of data in real time to make intelligent scaling decisions.

Whereas legacy systems often use only CPU load to trigger scaling, On Tap Cloud uses a holistic approach better suited to the dynamic nature of e-commerce websites.

This ML-driven approach allows e-commerce merchants to scale effortlessly, harnessing the cost efficiencies of DigitalOcean’s infrastructure to deliver consistent customer experience even during unexpected spikes in traffic and system workloads.

Auto-scale without the complexity

On Tap Cloud massively simplifies auto-scaling for e-commerce merchants. The solution can be up and running in a matter of days and without the complexity usually associated with auto-scaling. You don’t need any DevOps experts or specialized server configurations.

Currently, On Tap Cloud supports the following platforms: