By Julia
Tickets, naturally, are a huge component of your online competitions. Your competitions need to be able to hold lots of traffic, process tickets fast, and survive several orders being completed at the same time. It’s no easy feat, but we’ve got the solution to this: a High-Performance Ticket System. We’ll keep it to HPTS for short in this article, though.
Not to be confused with HTTPS (that’s something else), HPTS is our powerful ticket-generation tool. Yup, it generates tickets — fast — and a lot of them, too. Usain Bolt’s got nothing on it, that’s for sure. And not only that, but it also holds up to 200 orders per second.
This means that your players can get their hands on tickets faster than before, and without any worries about your site crashing, as the HPTS also improves your website’s overall performance.
More tickets also means you can host bigger (and better) comps, which means more money for you and super-duper happy players! Can’t really pass up on that, if you ask us.
So, how come we’re able to even have a high-performance ticket system?
Zap Host, of course.
Zap Host is our web hosting service, custom-built for competition businesses like yours.
Unlike other servers, Zap Host doesn’t eat your margins. It’s reliable, high-speed, and can withstand the demands of online competition businesses, including large traffic and a surge in ticket sales. So, the reason our HPTS functions so well is because Zap Host does.
Getting on Zap Host is in your best interest. Why? Because standard web hosts aren’t designed for the unique challenges of competition businesses. Zap Host is. It’s hosting that isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, but rather tailored to your specific needs. From speed to scalability, you can count on Zap Host improving your comp business on all fronts.
Zap Host allowed us to enhance our ticket system. How, you ask?
Let’s get into it.
Our old system required more server input. So, the more tickets you had and the more orders that were coming through, the longer it all took. And then Zap Host’s reliably fast system was born. This new one is built to withstand large ticket orders and improve your overall site performance. What’s not to love for your players?
In fact, a site with improved performance is exactly what customers want. Attention, as well as patience, is short nowadays — people want things, and they want them now. That’s why users give a site only three seconds, tops, before they bounce. We can’t have that.
That’s why Zap Host, and our high performance ticket system with it, are the way to go. Loading times are speedier than ever, and crashes are few and far between. Get on it!
We’ve probably not emphasised it enough. Our HPTS allows for a 40x faster ticket generation for your players, and can hold millions of tickets per competition. Gosh, that’s a lot of player potential (and, dare we say, also £££ potential)!
That’s also way more tickets than other servers and ticket systems can provide your competition business with, btw — and at a faster rate.
Our system is designed to help you drive sales and keep your players coming back. With such a great user experience, how could they not?
‘Zap’ and ‘secure’ are basically synonymous. You can count on no data breaches or customer data being leaked with us. We keep data safe and secure.
It’s why we partnered with GridPane to create Zap Host: they offer airtight server security. Security is non-negotiable in competitions and raffles, so Zap Host includes advanced protection measures such as SSL certificates, DDoS mitigation, and regular monitoring.
Our ticketing system uses a Cryptographically Secure Number Generator (woahhh, big word!) to guarantee complete security. This generator is unpredictable in its number selection, ensuring that the ticketing system is random every time a new order is placed.
Because Zap Host can withstand high traffic, so can our HPTS. Our ticketing system can handle up to 200 orders per second. If this were an Olympic sport, our ticketing system would be a winner.
So, when you’re holding a prize draw, your site is bulletproof against high traffic. As a result, your site won’t crash (yay!), and it saves you from giving out any duplicate tickets by accident. This means more players can enter your comps without issues.
All around, Zap Host and our HPTS are guaranteed to make your players happy.
What’s better than a flexible and secure system? A system that, on top of all of that, is also transparently priced.
Zap Host, which powers our HPTS, uses a tier-based pricing system. In other words, you pay for how well your competitions are performing and how many tickets you’re selling, as well as for what you use. There are no hidden charges or price hikes. We’re all about honesty here.
Now you can! And it’s only a click away. Contact us today, and we’ll get you sorted. The road to success is right behind the door, and we’re ready to give you the keys.
