Some websites may be included in one or more of these
categories. For example, a business website may
promote the business's products, but may also host
informative documents, such as white papers. There
are also numerous sub-categories to the ones listed
above. For example, a porn site is a specific type of e-
commerce site or business site (that is, it is trying to
sell memberships for access to its site) or have social
networking capabilities. A fansite may be a dedication
from the owner to a particular celebrity . Websites are
constrained by architectural limits (e.g., the computing
power dedicated to the website). Very large websites,
such as Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google
employ many servers and load balancing equipment
such as Cisco Content Services Switches to distribute
visitor loads over multiple computers at multiple
locations. As of early 2011, Facebook utilized 9 data
centers with approximately 63,000 servers.
In February 2009, Netcraft , an Internet monitoring
company that has tracked Web growth since 1995,
reported that there were 215,675,903 websites with
domain names and content on them in 2009, compared
to just 19,732 websites in August 1995. [10] After
reaching 1 billion websites in September 2014, a
milestone confirmed by NetCraft in its October 2014
Web Server Survey and that Internet Live Stats was the
first to announce—as attested by this tweet from the
inventor of the World Wide Web himself, Tim Berners-
Lee—the number of websites in the world has
subsequently declined, reverting to a level below 1
billion. This is due to the monthly fluctuations in the
count of inactive websites. The number of websites
continued growing to over 1 billion by March 2016, and
has continued growing since... Hungry ghost is a concept in Chinese Buddhism ,
Chinese traditional religion , Vietnamese Buddhism and
Vietnamese traditional religion representing beings who
are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic
way. The term 餓鬼 èguǐ , literally " hungry ghost ", is the
Chinese translation of the term preta in Buddhism .
"Hungry ghosts" play a role in Chinese Buddhism ,
Vietnamese Buddhism and Taoism as well as in Chinese
folk religion and Vietnamese folk religion. The term is
not to be confused with the generic term for " ghost" or
damnation, 鬼 guǐ (i.e. the residual spirit of a deceased
ancestor). The understanding is that all people become
such a regular ghost when they die, [1] and would then
slowly weaken and eventually die a second time. [2][3]
[4] Hungry ghosts, by contrast, are a much more
exceptional case, and would only occur in very
unfortunate circumstances, such as if a whole family
were killed or when a family no longer venerated their
ancestors. [3]
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