Last Updated on December 1, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
Web platforms such as Joomla are database driven. That means that they are sensitive to the number of connections open at any one time. Many business owners will start a site on inexpensive shared hosting for perhaps ten dollars a month.
As the site becomes more popular, they will start to experience issues with wait times and even page not found errors.
There are online sites such as http://loadimpact.com/ that will perform a load test on your site. Loadimpact offers a free service although the results are public. You simply run the test and then you will have an idea as to how much traffic your site can sustain.