title: How Many Network Connections Can a Computer Support?
body: <p>When writing a custom server, what are the best practices or techniques to determine maximum number of users that can connect to the server at any given time?</p>
  
  <p>I would assume that the capabilities of the computer hardware, network capacity, and server protocol would all be important factors.  </p>
  
  <p>Also, do you think it is a good practice to limit the number of network connections to a certain maximum number of users? Or should the server not limit the number of network connections and let performance degrade until the response time is extremely high?</p>