You need to be prepared for peak workloads or sudden jumps in usage:

• homework due dates
• online exams
• massive online courses
• incorporating large content libraries
• users migrating in from other systems

The LON-CAPA model system has always been distributed and systemwide load-balancing. LON-CAPA will be based on a dynamic cloud of servers in order to gracefully absorb peak loads and grow with usage while minimizing downtime.