Throttling and simultaneous connections to LDS.org
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:56 pm
I would like to maximize the throughput of pre-fetching/caching limited amounts of content from LDS.org, while at the same time being a good citizen. That of course means client-side throttling and limiting the number of simultaneous connections to the website. Does anyone have any experience in this area on the client side, or can anyone working on the server side provide some insight regarding:
- What is the fastest a client should send requests to LDS.org? In my experience, waiting one second between connections to LDS.org results in at least one connection stalling and timing out after 3-5 good connections (which is very expensive to wait for).
- What is the maximum number of connections a client should make to LDS.org at the same time? I understand that the de facto answer to question 2 is 2 simultaneous connections, but it would be good to know whether more is acceptable.