Web sites have been taking a grave turn from putting up photos of your grandmother’s cats to an explosion of social interaction, user create videos and even audio shows just like this one. With services like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others ruling the Web world - there have been a lot of copy cats come up in the ranks as well.

What some people don’t realize is it takes a lot of web hosting power to run these titans of the new digital age. A web site like digg.com is not run on a $5.99 a month web hosting account. They probably have a whole farm of servers running that single domain.

Who Will Save the Day?

This is where deditated hosting companies come into play. Places like Rackspace and FastServers.net love this new growth because that means more people have reasons for purchasing more hardcore hosting accounts. So if that is the good news, then what is the bad news?

The bad news is that these web sites need not one person running them, they need a team of dedicated people watching over them to keep them intact. For the would-be webmaster this creates another challenge of staffing and finding people who can work around the clock to make sure that some script kiddies don’t get too hyped up on Jolt cola, start running a DDOS attack on your Web 2.0 masterpiece and bring you to your knees.

If you have the next great web site ready to go, here are somethings you need to put on your shopping list when looking for a dedicated web host.

• Top Notch Uptime and Performance
• Solid Infrastructure and Scalability
• More Than One Way to Access 24/7 Support and Server Updates

So before you say that you would like to have the traffic or popularity of one of the Web’s leaders of the day make sure you know what your getting yourself into.

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