Hosting/Looking after big sites
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- justjeff0
It's very possible to do 10TB/month with music, without any internal filesharing type usage. Hell, I've seen 10TB/month on text+image sites (no music, no videos) - it's not that hard to do.
Yes, dedicated is a must. Moreover, more than one server is much more likely (I'd probably say at least 3, 2 web, 1 db - even better 4 as 3, 1, with one of the webservers serving as a backup database).
If it's mostly music + media, a content distribution network (Akamai, limelight, mirror-image, etc) may save you a lot of expense, infrastructure, and has an added bonus of providing quicker downloads to the end users (distributed systems = geographically closer = bonus).
It's not rocket science, but it's not terribly easy either. At 10TB/month, I'm guessing you're realizing that. You may find it easier to find a hosting company that will manage it for you, or you may find that a part-time consultant will save you a lot of headache (I've served both of those roles for some very busy sites in the past)