[simonbarker87]

Our company (www.radfan.com) was featured on BBC News Look North for 90 seconds (no web address mentioned so pure google searches) and I watched our google analytics real time climb to 1200 people simultaneous.

We were on BBC Radio 2 Drive Time the Friday before (web address mentioned this time) and we got about the same.

Shopify did an amazing job dealing with the traffic spike.

Good job getting on Click, that's awesome. We got lucky with the bad weather in March making our launch a relevant story.

[sw007]

Thanks very much. And neat site - I actually have used this before!

[simonbarker87]

No probs, good to hear!

For those interested in how an ecommerce site stacks up with traffic spikes, Shopify did a great job, the weak link was paypal. We had a good number of (potential) customers email to us to say that paypal locked up during payment, we were taking several orders a minute for a while there but still annoying that some were dropped.

One of our mailing lists also grew by 1200 names in 3 hours and Mail Chimp coped fine.