Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Akamai, so I'm not unbiased at all.
Have you considered using a CDN like Akamai? They're in the business of distributing content (dynamic, static, big, small, whatever) for you so you don't have to worry about much of the complexity already mentioned on the thread: load balancers, bw provisioning, hw provisioning...
Note that all the comments on this thread about writing a good web app still matter a lot. Akamai (or anything else) won't help you if you, for example, write it to be heavily database bound, and has bad locking semantics.
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Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Akamai, so I'm not unbiased at all.
Have you considered using a CDN like Akamai? They're in the business of distributing content (dynamic, static, big, small, whatever) for you so you don't have to worry about much of the complexity already mentioned on the thread: load balancers, bw provisioning, hw provisioning...
Note that all the comments on this thread about writing a good web app still matter a lot. Akamai (or anything else) won't help you if you, for example, write it to be heavily database bound, and has bad locking semantics.
-- Sef
(myname at akamai.com)
I've never had luck with Outlook proper. May be time to look at Firebird or others again. - Sef