Product page that loads in two seconds during normal traffic but stalls when a promotion begins usually has a database problem hiding behind a hosting problem. PHP workers may be available, CPU utilization may look reasonable, and a CDN may …
Magento stores can experience performance degradation long before a major database failure occurs. More often, performance erodes quietly: tables accumulate abandoned carts, sessions linger, cron jobs fall behind, indexes become stale, and reporting queries start competing with checkout traffic. A …