internet bandwidth question

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?

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.

This is certainly a waste of bandwidth.

On 08/23/2010 03:32 PM, Michael wrote:

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?

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.

Is this something that would best be hosted in-house?

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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