Fra Thick vs thin clients:
There’s a multitude of things you could do:
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Upgrade the computer with more memory, faster CPUs
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Duplicate the server you’ve got, and put a load-balancer in front of the two machines, to distribute the load
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Put the database on a separate server
Now I’m not suggesting any of those are a good place to start, they are simply some of the options in the big ocean of options before you.
Pop quiz: What do these solutions have in common?
Answer: they involve throwing more hardware on the problem, hoping it would go away.