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by crooksey 4248 days ago
In current times if a site was expecting high load or large amounts of traffic, it would be a bad idea NOT to have it behind a well configured load balancer and tested to a scale beyond what you expect. A simple python web API can handle 3k requests per second on a fairly average server, so either your software choice or production method would need analysing if you are worried about downtime at high usage.