I always wonder how a server like google server receive thousands of request from people at once! I understand the signals are passed through fibernet cable, but won’t those signals collide ? Or how can some small wire handle soo many requests at once ? iin my mind a wire can only take one request at a time. I know these happens close to light speed, but still! its very hard to understand.
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Each server has a maximum number of data connections from various source systems it can handle. Each network connection has a maximum speed of data it can handle. Technology like load balancing and multiple destination IP addresses can redirect all the traffic from a particular source system to any number of destinations so that the network connections and servers are not overloaded. Properly designed cloud systems can track the capacity currently in use and can automatically add additional servers in other locations so that the connections go over other network connections. When those servers are no longer needed the cloud system can move the connections to other servers and shutdown the now unused excess servers.
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