back in the days, I thought my 400 meg drive would last me 2 years... it lasted 2 months..
6-9 months ago, I thought I would have enough of 50gigs of HD.... I'm currently trying to find room to store my server backups....
on the hun question, it's sometimes alot to handle 1 million visitor, as well as 20,000+ members all by yourself.... that's why hun uses other people's pay sites, it's division of labour at its best, BUT he looses potential money...
I.E the best is to have everything run by yourself... Hosting, Tgp, Paysite, Content provider... but that is a hard and highly ressource consuming task..
I'.d say one of the best exemple of someone succeeding doing so could be Sublime.... That guy has it all hooked up together