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Even my school web site how does it do it?
Since all web sites are hosted on a computer some place how do big sites like myspace handle all the hits?
Smaller sites like your school's web site can be hosted on single machines similar to or the same as what you are using right now. That's because they really don't need the processing power and RAM to deal with millions of hits.
Sites like MySpace and Google have huge "farms" of servers that are racks and racks of strung-together processors and memory. Those are all attached to huge storage banks that have much more storage than you could image (terabytes? petabytes? oy!).
It takes a lot of machine power to deal with sites like MySpace and Google.
Since all web sites are hosted on a computer some place how do big sites like myspace handle all the hits?
Many, many computers, all talking to one another, not just a single computer...
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