When clients with slow internet connection request a page, the server holds on to the thread/process till the complete response is transferred. This results in resources holding up for longer than in cases where clients use fast connections.
To handle this, a reverse proxy (like squid, nginx etc.) can be used in front of the web server. The web server will simply need to transfer content to the reverse proxy (which is super fast as they are on the same network).
The reverse proxy takes the burden of transferring the response slowly and frees the web server immediately.
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