LMS integration
What It Takes to Size LMS Infrastructure for 100,000 Students
Absorbing a peak of tens of thousands of connections means distributing load, edge-caching static assets via CDN, and isolating the exam layer from the rest of the platform to avoid contention. No capacity figure should be promised on a brochure: at Educati it is sized with the institution and verified by a load test before the session.
The enrollment and finals peak
Institutions face extreme spikes at registration and final exams: thousands of students connect within a few minutes, then load falls away. It is that peak profile, not the annual average, that drives sizing.
What load distribution actually buys you
Spreading load across instances reduces the risk of a total outage but does not remove it: failover takes time, and an exam in progress is far more sensitive to it than a course page. The question to ask a host is not "do you guarantee zero downtime?" — nobody honestly can — but "what is your recovery objective, and when did you last test it?".
Isolating the exam layer
Answer submission, timing and seat assignment are best isolated from browsing traffic, so a spike on course content cannot degrade an exam in progress. That is an architectural principle, applicable whatever the vendor.
The only honest capacity is a measured one
Educati publishes no maximum-capacity figure, because such a figure depends entirely on the chosen deployment, the exam profile and the size of the session. Capacity is established with the institution, then verified by a load test reproducing the expected peak, before exam day.
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Frequently asked questions
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