I'm actually not doing anything, just wanted to know if sites like facebook, myspace, google images, etc would be possible to run fairly cheaply using a web hoster or would they really need dedicated private servers.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <crai...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just being super popular doesn't mean you need lots of disk space. What are > you storing? Are you using a database? If so, database size allowed by > hosting companies is normally calculated separately. > > If you think the site will be very popular, ie visitors in the thousands > per day, then some kind of cloud solution like Azure or Amazon is probably > better. > > Can you tell us what you are doing? Hard to make suggestion without > details. > > > Ok say I want to host an asp.net site which will be super popular (just an >> example don't forget, think of facebook) and will therefore need lots of >> disk space. Will any web hoster actually support such space and >> bandwidth requirements for a price I can actually afford? >> This may be a silly question because I'm not familiar with this stuff at >> all. >> >> >>
