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If the server dramatically slows down during testing or your website becomes temporarily unavailable this is already the first call that Black Friday may go sideways.
If you still have a couple of weeks before a big sales season you may address a trusted Managed Service Provider for a comprehensive performance investigation and further optimizations. Server and project audit is a complex procedure of testing and analyzing the business backend considering its specific goals, benchmarks and best practices from different sides — security, speed and stability.