I've never had to think about this. Always had the option of just opening up more capacity. My choice for application server (uWSGI) doesn't have easily found c

I've never had to think about this. Always had the option of just opening up more capacity. My choice for application server (uWSGI) doesn't have easily found configurations for dropping connections on high load. Lots of documentation on fallbacks but no pre-emptive dropping (that I can find).