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title: "What does the term Scalability mean?"  
description: "What does the term Scalability mean?"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2010-12-09  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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# What does the term Scalability mean?

Web applications that serve a large number of users or that present large amounts of data need to able to add capacity as users’ demands increase. The ability to add capacity to an application is called scalability. ASP.NET Web applications support this concept through their ability to run in multiple processes and to have those processes distributed across multiple CPUs and/or multiple servers.\
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## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

Web applications that serve a large number of users or that present large amounts of data need to able to add capacity as users’ demands increase. The ability to add capacity to an application is called scalability. ASP.NET Web applications support this concept through their ability to run in multiple processes and to have those processes distributed across multiple CPUs and/or multiple servers.\
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