What goes in to making a web site that needs to scale?
- by samoz
I am planning to build an application that will get a large amount of traffic. (Please don't say I won't get traffic, this is for an internal network, so the traffic will be there. Just trying to avoid the 'You won't get that much traffic, don't worry about it.)
What sorts of things do I need to do so that it doesn't simply crash under the load of a large amount of users?
What becomes the limiting factors? Database stuff? I/O with front end?
I've never really developed a serious web app before and am looking for some help.