patio11 (as usual) said it best. There is a lot more going on behind the scenes of a professional datacenter than you are aware of, and even if you were aware o

patio11 (as usual) said it best. There is a lot more going on behind the scenes of a professional datacenter than you are aware of, and even if you were aware of it, you might not be able to replicate it. The hardware they use is different. While you use desktop-class drives, they use enterprise class drives with faster platters, bigger buffers and better disk controllers. While you use Marvell/Broadcom NICS which crash if you torrent too heavily, they use Intel server-class NICS which support TCP/IP processing offload. Which means they process network traffic in hardware. While you connect everything with an 8-port NEXXT switch you got for $20, they connect everything with $20,000 Cisco / HP switches. While you have a 15 mbps asymmetric connection with dynamic IP from Comcast, they have multiple 1gbps feeds from Level3 and Global Crossing. They run BGP between themselves and their upstream providers, so their IP addresses don't change even if those providers were wiped off the map. Most importantly? They have huge teams of highly paid, highly qualified engineers building and monitoring these systems. Oh; and they still have outages. Progressing is futile. I'm a former sysadmin for a Big-4 accounting firm. Take it from a fellow Pythonista: your time is much better spent at the '>>>' prompt than at the 'root@localhost#' prompt.