re: #115 SixDegrees

A million bucks for a hosting service? Damn - my $10 a month looks so paltry by comparison. That would keep my site going for over eight thousand years.

I know the GOP has special concerns - high volume, security, gigantic attack target - but c’mon. You know what I would do? I would find out who put together Hannah Montana’s website, and hire them - they have exactly the same set of concerns as the GOP, and I bet they’d work for a lot less.

Hell - I’d take the contract myself, and only charge them $750,000.

That kind of cha-ching could buy you one hell of an infrastructure. Let us say they were paying an very high amount of money per server at $1000 per month for dedicated hosting. That would be about 83 dedicated servers. 83 dedicated servers clustered could, with the kind of hardware $1000/mo could buy, give your 5000 hits per server per second, or 415,000 hits per second, 24.9 mil hits per minute, 1.5 billion hits per hour and 36 billion hits per day.

That is f’ing ridiculous.