What if your product achieved great exposure and your website stops working because too many people were interested in your product at the same time… Perhaps you had never asked yourself, or maybe, like many, it is a factor overlooked when starting a web project — and it happens at every scale, from small websites that explode in traffic due to a mention on television, to large banks that see their systems collapse and often invest more than they need to achieve more concurrent users without apparent success.
Is the number of concurrent users of a website unlimited?
No. In reality, all websites make payments to stay fast, ranging from hosting services to the infrastructure developed depending on each project. The speed connecting your infrastructure to the Internet is also a factor to consider, though very often the main incident is not hardware-related. All of this truly limits the concurrent users of a web page or application.
The information technology industry is capricious, as when it shows us how an “old” computer turned into a server can, when correctly configured, greatly outperform more powerful machines that try to compensate with hardware what software and the correct use of resources can do.
Every website is limited by the amount of money paid for it, which is why it should be an investment and not a whim. Those who pay lower amounts are on shared hosting, those who pay a bit more have virtual or dedicated servers, while those who need custom hosting solutions often need to serve content from different states, countries, and/or continents, while also maintaining an intelligent worldwide infrastructure — because regardless of whether you access a social network from Peru or from Canada, the expectation is the same: that the website loads fast.
What happens when concurrent users start to increase?
On most shared hosting, the website stops working, shows an operating error, or does not respond at all. On somewhat more developed hosting, the average number of visitors might be in the few hundreds, bouncing errors due to many factors and, worse still, not serving web page content quickly, showing how load time is something we must fight against.
The Opportunity of Concurrent Users — Time to Sell a Whole Lot!
The industry and hosting have made it possible, for a few hundred dollars per month, to have infrastructure that supports several million concurrent users, and at ZARZA we understand that concurrent users are a sign of the success our web venture is having.
The problem is that very often not even hosting providers themselves bother to tune their systems so they work in the best possible way, also taking into account that someone who pays a few dollars will not be able to access resources that must be distributed among several dozens of customers for the provider’s operation to remain profitable. That is why it is called shared hosting, in short.
How many concurrent users are invited to buy your product or service?
Our website is like a great hall; our web infrastructure is what will allow us to control the browsing experience of the concurrent users who visit us, and providing each of them an exclusive, high-speed service makes it completely easier for them to take your services, giving you a direct benefit, translated into sales or exposure, that justifies the investment of maintaining a website.
The math is simple; however, at ZARZA we know how to optimize and correctly invest the budget of your web infrastructure, offering all kinds of services so you do not lose visits and so that, on the contrary, when you receive many more concurrent users, your platform is available and fast for each and every one of your potential customers.
From ZARZA we invite you to be like us, AHEAD OF OUR TIME, and we remind you that our more than 150 Engineers stationed around the world are available to configure, optimize, and improve your web infrastructure. We invite you to send your inquiries to our Pre-sales team, or Hire a ZARZA Engineer Today! And manage to receive many more concurrent users than your competition.
