When the war between Israel and Lebanon broke out in a big way last week, the Drudgereports website exploded with 14,000 hits in one day. Fourteen million. That means that even if a tiny percentage of these hitters clicked on the ads posted to the site, Matt Drudge’s registry would be making enough money.
And remember, Drudgereport charges more per click than the average blogger or site owner.
But please note: How much server capacity do you need to absorb 14 million hits in one day? Rest assured that you will now have to deploy a huge number of Dell servers
for example, or hire at IBM to get enough length to earn that 14 million hit.
Thus, companies like Google and Yahoo grew from the beginning of the Internet, small in size, but when they began to invest millions of billions and trillions of hits on sites, those companies began to grow corporately, and people, buildings, services, rapidly; server room equipment that needed to be updated in about a week. Google had to have its servers tailor-made because no one was making them with the amount of memory needed to accommodate the company’s growth.
And for every Google and Yahoo out there, you have thousands of wannabes who started a website gaining popularity and hits, and the hits grow geometrically. They have to spend money to expand without even replacing a fraction of it yet, and they buy a ton of servers and equipment, increase phone and data capacity, grow and grow and grow, and then. . . the bottom fell out. The site’s competition starts to destroy the site’s popularity and spirals down, and the webmaster is stuck with a huge investment in equipment, people and infrastructure that becomes a liability overnight. He has to sell the pennies on the dollar and go to the nearest casino, hoping to get them all back in the game of Texas Hold ‘Em.
Even those who stick with it, like Matt Drudge, have the heavy burden of responsibility that comes with fame and fortune. Sometimes this is interrupted when it is obtained, and large plows are made all the time for various interesting and often mysterious reasons. Therefore, you need a good patron to solve these problems.
Next, viral attacks. Do not think that an entrepreneurial blogger will not be hit with a virus that can be well targeted in his own person. That’s how good hackers are. And if it’s big, big, really big, these attacks go crazy. Google deals with several hundred new viral attacks on its network every day. It is best to hire antivirus software against this attack.
Here comes the command. Yes, most cash transactions on the Internet have no direct taxation, but really big blogger will have to compete with business licenses, operating permits , building permits, dodgy rental deals, all kinds of scams, millions of malicious email solicitations, you name it.
Even a person with an MBA will find it difficult to navigate the hostile waters of business and get out of it in one piece. Just see and believe no one.
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