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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by crutchy on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:55PM
increased traffic probably
i can host a website on my home PC for next to nothing (electricity & internet access)
when "dot com" became trendy and moved beyond the realm of nerds and geeks, and corporations realized they could make a profit using the interwebs, they pounced
now there's ecommerce, bots of various sorts (good and bad), spam, viruses, multimedia, online games, etc.
the bottleneck for a popular site is generally dns and load balancing. processing requests and database load etc can be spread out.