Why some internet sites crash because of traffic while others don’t?
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Imagine you want to go to a restaurant, but the managers skimped on space and their wait staff so service isn’t all that great. As soon as they are full, they can’t let anyone else in and it might take the staff a long time to free up tables.
Now compare that to the well-run restaurant across the street that has a big seating area and the staff is very efficient at getting people in and out. They also have additional seating in case their main area is full, they can send customers to the additional seating area if necessary.
Same concept with websites. The servers that host the site need to have sufficient capacity and be able to handle enough traffic (by having additional servers and routing them based on traffic).
A website pretty much sends information to your web browser so it has to be able to handle that. If not, nothing is loaded in your browser because it never got anything to load.
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