some more food for thought... some details on a Data Center set up for hosting fansites, complete with a pic of the racks:

40 servers (24 web, 10 database, 4 media and 2 network attached storage)
A four-enclosure SAN, composed of 86 hard drives.
Two BIG-IP load balancers.
An eight-blade 192-port HP LAN switch.
10 gigabits of available bandwidth!

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?a...attach_id=6574

Now... this is just for hosting websites/forums. A drop in the bucket in comparison.

Raist