4chan needs better software!

If you use the wonders of distributed computing you could simply buy 10 or more shared hosting packages from various providers such as 1&1, go daddy, dreamhost, etc. and easily cover all the bandwidth costs.

They just need distributed software. Seriously all the bandwidth issues are from static images and flash files. The board software doesn't even need to be distributed just the images.

>>52
yeah they'd need to monitor if the servers are still up and change the mirror list per availability. Yet for none of those servers are thy directly responsible. And if you look at the skills of VacBob you can plainly see that the problem is not N servers it is the technical competency of the administration (he uses a mac).

>>53
That's the beauty of not serving dynamic content from the mirrors. Static content is very very cheap to host and costs shit all for CPU. So your argument is null and void. As for bandwidth Godaddy reps etc constantly say they don't mind people using their bandwidth within the limits of the purchased plans. If you aren't heavily burdening the CPUs with slow slow PHP bullshit (which wouldn't happen on the mirrors) no one will whine to you about CPU usage.