What method can help improve server response time during peak usage?

Deploying load balancers is an effective strategy for improving server response time during peak usage. Load balancers distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers, ensuring that no single server becomes overwhelmed by excessive requests. This distribution helps maintain optimal performance as it balances the workload, allowing servers to respond more quickly to user requests and improving the overall user experience.

In contrast to simply increasing processor speed, which may enhance performance but does not address traffic distribution, or adding hard drives that may improve storage performance but not necessarily balance traffic, load balancers specifically target the issue of traffic management. Utilizing only SSDs can also improve speed, but without load balancing, a single server with SSDs could still face bottlenecks during high demand periods. Therefore, deploying load balancers directly addresses the challenge of server response time under heavy loads by efficiently managing how requests are handled across multiple servers.