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Costco's site has never been a role model in fact it can hardly handle most weekend traffic. This annoys me on multiple levels since it puts a bad name to asp.net's ability to scale as well as the fact weekends are my main shopping window and I just can't use the site.

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Does ASP.NET have a bad rep for poorly scaling? I'd have thought it was just the licensing/overhead costs of running Windows that turns folks off.

This should, hopefully, change for the better with .NET Core getting wider adoption.

It should not. StackOverflow.com, for example, runs on ASP.NET MVC and is one of the websites with most traffic in the world. Also blazing fast and rarely goes down. Even in Black Friday!

also, once you open a web browser with the website, it keeps an open connection to the server. Their servers handles all the open concurrent connections

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