>>4316263
That is my surmise. None of us knows for sure.
I looked at the stress test as a software engineering exercise to profile the components of the site, determine capacity, determine where the choke points are, etc. It is quite possible to scale up a site once you know how many bytes are going to be served and what the infrastructure design will be. There are many variables such as # of CPUs, type of CPUs, amount of memory, software structure, load balancing (parallel paths through multiple links and machines serving the load), caching proxies, network adapters and links, etc. There are people with expertise in this kind of design.
I could be wrong about what Q meant or intends, though.