Why do website fail to handle traffic load? Twitter and NatNAlex

I am sure many of you are familar with problems of websites not being able to handle their traffic load. For instance, recently Twitter has been having tons of problems keeping all their services running. And at this point I am really surprised they haven’t gotten it down. It isn’t like they didn’t know they were going to have tons of traffic. Also I am very surprised they refuse to maintain/upgrade. Maybe at this point I shouldn’t be surprised because of all the other problems they have had yet I still am.

Another site; NatnAlex had live chats w/o video back to back. Both days their servers couldn’t handle the load which ticked me off to no end. Now this site should know better as well as Twitter perhaps they need to learn some server tips from Facebook and Google and dare I say Microsoft.

Sincerely,

Will

WRRY

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