Last updated May 22, 2007. Created by forngren on November 23, 2005.
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The throttle is useful to sites that have limited resources and usually are not that busy. It is actually less useful to consistently high-traffic sites, as by necessity they will already have the required infrastructure to survive high loads.
The throttle works well for a website that's on a shared host with limited CPU and bandwidth, that usually only gets a handful of visitors, and then is suddenly Slashdotted. Of course, it will only help in that case if it has been enabled and properly configured.