A Few Words About Server Farms
As traffic on a Web site grows or the number of a particular Web-based application's users grows, the only way to handle the load is to increase the number of machines servicing the application or Web site or to increase the power of the existing machines.
Often it is not feasible to scale up (increase the number or clock speed of the processors in existing servers) when the machine resources in a server farm are taxed beyond the point they are able to process incoming requests. The price or even the availability of faster processors can be limiting factors, as can the hardware's capability to accept more or different components. In other words, existing motherboards may not be able to accept more or faster chips ...
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