Handling Unpredictable High Server-Load

World Wide Web, with its acronym WWW, is also known as the World Wide Wait. Some servers receive many requests at certain times of day, and as a result serving each of these requests takes longer. There is no universal solution which is guaranteed to work under all circumstances: with many millions of users on Internet, it is theoretically possible that all of them send a request to one and the same server at the exact same moment. There exists no server architecture capable of handling millions of simultaneous requests. How many requests a server can handle depends on a number of factors: Besides these factors the perceived performance also depends on: