Re:Of course a skeptical person.... (Score 1)

Technical operations means more than just serving millions of hits per second to millions of people. Google, of course, has done that with flying colors. Another way of looking at the scaling of operations is the cost associated with growing their clusters to meet demand, in terms of the people who maintain them and the infrastructure...namely data center space and location. If you have not noticed recently, co-lo's are not doing so well; see news releases for C&W (Exodus), Intel Operations and MFN (a.k.a AboveNet). As these services go away and the co-lo industry consolidates, prices will go up as will the cost of operations.