Unfortunately, the Laravel application (or PHP-FPM socket) kept falling over once I increased the number of concurrent "users" past 100. NetData provided the following graphs to see how the server was holding up under all this load. Go with 100 concurrent connections Laravel with 100 concurrent connections Please note that I ran the benchmark from the same machine as the applications were running
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