LNER Perks

[35B]

Yes, server bandwidth. To use an example, when the shops were shut Moonpig (the greetings card site) were experiencing huge traffic volumes and reduced this by switching to app-only. This wasn't a conspiracy as now things have calmed down they've switched back to app and website.

Not having to serve images etc is going to make a considerable difference.

There are other ways to manage traffic in those conditions.

 

[SickyNicky]

There are other ways to manage traffic in those conditions.

You could use something like Cloudflare, which will cache all the static content between your web server and clients.

 

[35B]

You could use something like Cloudflare, which will cache all the static content between your web server and clients.

Indeed, CDNs were very much what I had in mind - and extremely effective

 

[30907]

The good thing is that if you buy a ticket in the app using up the£5 freebie it comes as a PDF e-ticket so you can uninstall the app after purchasing.

Useful info, thank you

 

[Sonic1234]

Is the £5 bonus only valid on LNER tickets or can it be used towards any ticket? I've bought from LNER a few times as my bank does an offer with them, but always for travel on other TOCs.