With as much money as these big news corporations have, they can afford to pay for load-testing and geographic based load-balancing. Just look at the statistics of the last site IBM did for the Olympics. It had insane hit-rates and never experienced 1 sec of downtime or missing requests.
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With as much money as these big news corporations have, they can afford to pay for load-testing and geographic based load-balancing. Just look at the statistics of the last site IBM did for the Olympics. It had insane hit-rates and never experienced 1 sec of downtime or missing requests.