Since all web sites are hosted on a computer some place how do big sites like myspace handle all the

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%26#039;s web site can be hosted on single machines similar to or the same as what you are using right now. That%26#039;s because they really don%26#039;t need the processing power and RAM to deal with millions of hits.

Sites like MySpace and Google have huge %26quot;farms%26quot; 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...