Black Friday. Risk & Mitigation Plan Preparation

Overview

The purpose of this page is to prepare a technical Risk & Mitigation Plan for the upcoming Black Friday campaign.

This plan will help ensure that the website remains stable, secure, and performant under increased traffic and system load.

Each identified risk should include a short description, likelihood, potential impact, and a proposed mitigation strategy.

The engineering team will review this plan and confirm the necessary actions before the campaign begins.

Risk & Mitigation Plan Table

#

Risk Description

Likelihood

Impact

Mitigation Strategy

Owner

Status

Short description of the risk…

Low / Medium / High

Low / Medium / High

Preventive and protective actions…

Name / Team

Planned / In Progress / Done

01

Possible discrepancies in the product list

Medium

High

Clearing the WP Rocket cache

Dima Savchenko

Planned

02

Heavy load on the server (DDoS attack, Crawler Bots)

Medium

High

Increasing security level in Cloudflare / blocking access for crawler bots / finding and blocking ddos attackers

Dima Savchenko

Planned

On-Call Availability During Black Friday

During all three days of the Black Friday campaign, our team will remain fully on-call to react immediately to any issues, performance drops, or unexpected load spikes.

The following team members will actively monitor the system:

  • DevOps – server performance, infrastructure health, Cloudflare.

  • Developer – application behaviour, checkout flow, logs.

Throughout the campaign, we will continuously observe:

  • Server load and resource usage

  • Cloudflare traffic and potential security threats

  • Error logs and 500-error spikes

  • Checkout and payments stability

Our goal is to ensure maximum uptime, performance, and stability during the entire Black Friday period.

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