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I can give you a couple insights: 300 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute in 2018 A couple of years ago I've seen a Google talk with a youtube

I can give you a couple insights: 300 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute in 2018 A couple of years ago I've seen a Google talk with a youtube admin/engineer. He said that in the beginning they had huge issues because they could not order servers fast enough for the demand. Money seems to never have played a role in those decisions (I can't find the link to the talk anymore). If a video gets uploaded it will be stored in multiple resolutions and formats. So a video is probably stored as ~20 files which makes the space requirements even more mind boggling.

jacquesm 8y ago
> He said that in the beginning they had huge issues because they could not order servers fast enough for the demand. We had the exact same problems in the beginning of Camarades.com, before the wankers found out about it. It's amazing how for nearly 6 months it was just 'nice people' and after that it went downhill rapidly. We found out that hard way that 3 weeks lead time on a batch of servers only looks good if you don't double in size every two weeks or so :) One Dell server we ordered didn't even make it to production, it was way too small by the time it arrived so they took it back and shipped us a much larger one. That's also roughly around the time that we figured out that it is much cheaper to have one large server to do all the writes and a bunch of slaves that do all the reads from local copies. Of course a modern day server would laugh at serving up dynamic pages to a few hundred thousand people per day but in the late 90's that was quite a challenge.
- digi_owl 8y ago
  And these days i think Google builds their storage solutions from the board up. And i seem to recall reading about Facebook doing something similar (including experimenting with cold storage on burned blu-ray).

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I can give you a couple insights: 300 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute in 2018 A couple of years ago I've seen a Google talk with a youtube

by pizzapill 8y ago

jacquesm 8y ago
> He said that in the beginning they had huge issues because they could not order servers fast enough for the demand. We had the exact same problems in the beginning of Camarades.com, before the wankers found out about it. It's amazing how for nearly 6 months it was just 'nice people' and after that it went downhill rapidly. We found out that hard way that 3 weeks lead time on a batch of servers only looks good if you don't double in size every two weeks or so :) One Dell server we ordered didn't even make it to production, it was way too small by the time it arrived so they took it back and shipped us a much larger one. That's also roughly around the time that we figured out that it is much cheaper to have one large server to do all the writes and a bunch of slaves that do all the reads from local copies. Of course a modern day server would laugh at serving up dynamic pages to a few hundred thousand people per day but in the late 90's that was quite a challenge.
- digi_owl 8y ago
  And these days i think Google builds their storage solutions from the board up. And i seem to recall reading about Facebook doing something similar (including experimenting with cold storage on burned blu-ray).