Why can’t you access a website if there’s too much traffic? How does that work?
In: Technology
Well, can you move onto a highway that is already filled to capacity with other traffic participants?
Just like you have limited bandwidth available to perform up- and downloads, every site’s webserver has limited bandwidth available to perform up- and downloads. A sudden unexpected traffic spike will result in *nobody* being able to get enough data from the server to do anything useful. The other likely scenario is that some form of load-balancing or DDOS-protection service used by the website detects the traffic spike and immediately just shuts down access – “Something fishy is going on here – *nobody* is getting in!”.
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