I don’t know what kind of load you expect but web servers don’t just slow down linearly forever: at some point when traffic exceeds capacity, queues fill up, me

I don’t know what kind of load you expect but web servers don’t just slow down linearly forever: at some point when traffic exceeds capacity, queues fill up, memory maxes out, and all requests grind to a halt with enough load. The way out is scaling horizontally, and you want to do that at some point before you end up sending 503s to the load balancer.