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Cyber Monday is a day that online businesses both love and dread. According to IBM, online sales during Cyber Monday 2012 increased by 30.3% over 2011’s online shopping extravaganza, and there is no reason why this year those numbers would go down – Adobe is predicting total sales to topple the $2 Billion mark. And while all companies love the increase in traffic and revenue, Cyber Monday has a tendency to unearth serious logistical problems for online businesses. Servers crash, sites go down, irate customers jam phone lines, and offices explode in a frenzy of panic as every minute of downtime means losing another customer. As the owner of an online business, I know first-hand how important it is to ready yourself for Cyber Monday, and how to prepare for it...