lots of hardware there are a few best practices to scaling, you can find those archived at places like highscalability etc...but in the end you just need hardw

lots of hardware there are a few best practices to scaling, you can find those archived at places like highscalability etc...but in the end you just need hardware. hardware buys you fault tolerance, test environments, sharding, blah blah blah. if you are looking to meet this traffic on your own box or on a vm-hoster, forget it