so what are the options? In house servers and T1 lines? Who runs the internet, Leftists? Arent gateways as important as servers?
No one uses T-1 lines anymore. We use 1, 10, or 100 Gbps fiber. A T-1 is 1/1000th that of a 1 Gbps fiber.
The basic makeup is you get a building, you stuff it with servers and software, and connect it to the Internet via a backbone company like AT&T or Comcast.
Hosting companies do the same thing but rent you server space. It is expensive. Very expensive. Cost studies show they aren’t worth it in most cases.
Now we are seeing an additional ugly side of hosting: Censorship. Hosting companies want to censor what you put on those servers you rent.