[SlowToady]

You'd be amazed at the volume of text messages that pass through the hardware that handles the routing of the text messages. My brother-in-law writes (a lot of) the code that handles it. It's pretty amazing, to say the least.

Fun-fact: There is so much volume, to avoid delays, the entire DB of phone numbers is loaded into memory on the severs so the disks don't trash themselves to death. They had to think up a clever way to store the acct. information in memory because there are so many records.