With all due respect andrew why dont you share your technical analysis of what exactly I am saying that is wrong here. Btw, have you ever actually worked on any database scaling problems? Just checking.
I am currently managing a system that serves over 100,000 DNS queries per second, each of which is dynamically evaluated as to how we respond to it. And each of which is logged, amounting to over 7,000,000,000 log lines a day, all which get processed, parsed and in many cases handed over to a database store. Yep, we're dealing with BILLIONS of rows of MySQL per day.
Hey thanks for OpenDNS by the way, I'm a long time user, and I love it.