Re: Overwhelming a Web Application Server

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And that it's an issue that is addressed by developers and architects,

> although perhaps supported by frameworks.

Can't speak for other frameworks, but in ASP.Net the choice between the
3 is a setting in web.config.

> Wouldn't it be better to tell some users to come back later, rather
than fight over resources?

"What, are you nuts"??? :-) I think most companies would rather have the
order than not, and that's how they view it. If I want to order a
left-handed-widget now, if you site isn't up, someone else's is. Now
there are exceptions to that, and maybe class registration is one, I
can't register at another college if I'm enrolled in yours.

> Are there frameworks that support that?

Even better than the framework would be a load-aware load balancer on
the front end, based on the load the load balancer could just shunt you
off to another server, maybe just one that says "try again" or even
better yet, just stall your request for 50ms, and try again, load has
changed by then.

-Walden