Let's say for example a colleague of mine wants to start a news network: something comparable to cnn.com or news.bbc.co.uk.
Millions of people would be visiting the site at all hours of the day.
What kind of web host could cope with this kind of traffic?
Is this something that would best be hosted in-house?
Thanks,
Michael
Do you mean "server?". A large farm of them, probably. More likely a lot of little bits of a lot of them, rented from some service provider.
That depends. Does he want to be a news network guy, or an IT wonk? (Seriously: this gets back to the whole insource vs. outsource discussion -- if he knows news but not IT, then he should rent out as much expertise as he can, at least at first. Then if his business grows, when the inevitable happens and the service provider decides they don't want him as a customer anymore, he can consider hiring some clever IT folks and bringing that expertise -- and profit margin -- in house).
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This is certainly a waste of bandwidth.
This newsgroup is about electronics, specifically about basic electronics, as in resistors and transistors.
You've posted in the wrong place, go and find one related to computers, and more specifically computer networks.
Michael
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Yes, server.
Thanks for the info.
Michael Darrett
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