Imagine your server is like a super-busy restaurant ??, and lots of people (network traffic) are coming in at once, asking for food (data). Add More Cooks (Servers) ??: If the restaurant is too busy, you can bring in more cooks (servers) to help make the food faster. This is called load balancing. Speed the Orders (Optimize Resources) ??: You can make things faster by using tools to help servers handle more customers. Keep the Kitchen Clean (Remove Junk Data) ??: Clean out things that aren’t needed, like old, useless files (cache). Use VIP Lanes (Prioritize Important Traffic) ??: You can set special lanes for important data to get served first! By doing these, your server (restaurant) can handle lots of traffic without slowing down

To keep servers running smoothly during peak traffic, system administrators should adjust configurations, use caching for high-demand data, and scale resources dynamically through load balancers to spread traffic evenly. Consistent security monitoring and tool updates also boost stability and efficiency, ensuring reliable performance and system integrity even under heavy loads.

Separate the meat from the potatoes. A lot of requests to backend servers that are directly from clients are unnecessary, or could be cached and proxied by load balancers to reduce direct pressure on the backend servers. Load balancers such as F5 LTMs also introduce things like iRules, where you can inject TCL scripting into this point for all kinds of things -- header manipulation, log additions, etc. So in order - 1) eliminate unnecessary requests, 2) load balance your servers 3) add more servers to the load balancing

1) Identifify bottleneck: Are you sure you have a server problem? What about networking? 2) Are your physical connections are optimized? Are there unnecessary switches,routers,cables? 3) Do you have have logically configuration optimized?LAN with segmentation?VLANs?routers? 4) Do you have updated equipment?por example ethernet ports with gigabit (1-10gbps) 5) Have you compared expected performance vs real performance? 6) Have you UPDATED your firmware, drivers, bios, operating system, database software, applications? and other software of NICs, PC, switches, routers, SERVER SOFTWARE? 7) Do you know what is traveling inside the network cables and network interfaces?I recommend using wireshark.