From heat wave to sales surge at Evolar
Evolar specializes in climate control, helping consumers create a comfortable indoor environment. Its range includes air conditioners, fans, heating solutions, and other cooling and heating products.
During the recent heat wave, temperatures climbed above 35°C. People across the Netherlands rushed to cool down, and orders poured in at Evolar, the climate control specialist. The result: more than €1 million in revenue in a single day. That’s an exceptional commercial achievement. Just as important, though, is what customers never ran into: slow pages, error messages, a frozen checkout, or downtime. The online store stayed fast, stable, and available at the moment it counted most.
Peak traffic takes preparation
In weather-driven e-commerce, you often know in advance that a peak is on its way. Predicting exactly how big it will be is much harder.
A heat wave doesn’t just bring more visitors. Checkout, payments, inventory and order processing, and external integrations all have to handle far more transactions in a short time. At moments like these, any slowdown or outage can immediately affect revenue, conversion, customer experience, logistics, and customer service.
For Evolar, the challenge was clear: the online store had to stay fast, stable, and fully available, even during an exceptional surge in demand.
Built on a scalable e-commerce platform
Evolar’s online store runs on Magento Open Source. The platform offers the stability and flexibility a growing e-commerce business needs to handle high volumes of visitors, orders, and connected systems. During a sales peak, the frontend isn’t the only part under heavy load. Checkout, inventory processing, payments, order processing, and external integrations all have to keep up with rising volumes. So a store’s performance depends on the entire chain. A stable platform provides the foundation, but every link has to be ready for the traffic and transactions a peak brings.
Scaling up ahead of the heat wave
Evolar’s online store is hosted by Hypernode. When the forecasts showed an exceptionally hot spell on the way, Cream and Evolar worked out in advance how much capacity the store would need.
The hosting environment was scaled up ahead of the biggest rush of visitors and orders, so no emergency measures were needed during the peak. With the extra capacity already in place, customers could keep shopping and checking out without delays or interruptions.
Always monitoring, ready to step in
Cream continuously monitors the online store and the processes running behind the scenes. That includes performance, server load, queues, order processing, and external integrations. If a process starts falling behind, we can immediately track down the source of the delay and make adjustments where needed.
During Evolar’s peak, for example, we noticed that an external integration couldn’t process the large volume of orders fast enough. A queue built up, and shipping confirmations were at risk of falling behind. Sales through the online store carried on as normal, but behind the scenes, immediate action was needed. That’s exactly when you need partners you can rely on. Cream immediately coordinated with Evolar and the third party involved, identified the bottleneck, and helped clear the queue before it could affect the customer experience or business operations.
Technical stability that paid off
Thanks to preparation, a scalable hosting environment, and continuous monitoring, Evolar’s e-commerce platform stayed stable during the most important sales period of the year. Behind the scenes, Cream kept watch over the technical processes and stepped in immediately where needed. As a result, Evolar could fully capitalize on the exceptional demand during the heat wave, generating more than €1 million in revenue through its online store in a single day.
Cream is a Hypernode Platinum Partner
As a Hypernode Platinum Partner, Cream ranks among Hypernode’s top hosting partners for experience and specialist expertise. Together with Hypernode, we make sure your online store always performs at its best.
