Does anyone have good technical understanding of web-site hosting? Is it feasible for this site to have had so many hits in the past 2 weeks. The site must be hosted on some really high-end intrastructure. Only the likes of Google, eBay and Amazon have this much traffic.

The population of UK is 60 million so we have all visited it once plus all the international hits?

Or is this figure over-inflated deliberately and if so why?

No its not accurate at all - im a web developer and us developers alike all understand what a 'hit' really is.

Basically if i create a web page with 10 images and someone visits that page its not one hit but 10 hits.

I could create a webpage with 1 million tiny images on it and everytime its viewed i can claim 1 million hits!

Also alot of website visitor counting software has options to

start the count at a higher number and also increment in blocks of 3,4,5 etc...

Thats a lot of hits but feasible I guess as we are nosey creatures.......

I must have had thirty emails from different people with photos etc. though

this search is now going on world wide so why should it be made up,