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I've wondered before if Vevo does some sort of CDN style hosting outside of Youtube. Their videos seem to load at a different speed from the rest of the stuff
by waterlesscloud 14y ago
I've wondered before if Vevo does some sort of CDN style hosting outside of Youtube. Their videos seem to load at a different speed from the rest of the stuff on Youtube.
I've got no evidence other than my own sketchy observation, but the though has crossed my mind several times.
- confluence 14y agoVEVO is a highly viewed channel - hence probabilistically their videos are going to be viewed more often and use more bandwith. Hence, YouTube caches them more heavily (and distributes them closer to viewers) as a result to probabilistically reduce video latency and cost of hosting. Same with any highly viewed channel - they all load faster than say something new with ~1000 views which hits a foreign data centre hard disk instead of a localised CDN server's RAM.