Scale Your Website Like YouTube - A Look at YouTube's Architecture

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

by nickb • 19 years ago

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horatio05• 19 years ago

Very interesting article, it's good for entrepreneurs who are wondering what will happen when (of course ;-)) their websites start getting hammered with traffic.

ivankirigin3• 19 years ago

YouTube probably requires more bandwidth per user than all the YCombinator funded sites combined. Maybe Justin.tv is the exception.

palish3• 19 years ago

Another huge bandwidth consumer is http://www.ytmnd.com

It's a site that lets you upload a gif image, a sound, and some text. You pick a subdomain (for example, "something"). Then it puts all those on http://something.ytmnd.com. Each day, around 100,000 of these are viewed, so it chews up a huge amount of bandwidth.

Max is the owner of that site, and he's been living off of the advertising revenue at about the same living status as someone working full time at McDonald's. Last I heard, the advertising pulls in about $20k per month, and the bandwidth takes about $18k per month. He works all day and night on it.. it's amazing. I don't know why he hasn't sought investors or anything like that, but it's a huge community (even though it consists largely of teenagers).

Any investors who like investing in that sort of thing might want to contact him.

staunch2• 19 years ago

The last thing we need is ytmnd getting bigger.

steve• 19 years ago

always wondered how that was working out for the owners.

nickb• 19 years ago

No, Justin.tv is not even close.

ivankirigin3• 19 years ago

Not yet.

If you define user as someone that life-casts, then yes, it takes more.

staunch2• 19 years ago

On a per-user basis it certainly could be. I don't think we have numbers on average stream duration for Justin or the number of videos the average YouTuber watches though.

Most of the YC companies don't do anything bandwidth-intensive so it's a pretty meaningless thing to compare.

dood• 19 years ago

Youtube probably uses more than all but the top 0.0001% of sites combined (or some very very small percentage).

"All by itself, YouTube comprises 20 percent of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10 percent of all traffic on the Net. Let's repeat that: one site takes up 10 percent of the bandwidth on the entire Net."

[http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-compris...]

Scale Your Website Like YouTube - A Look at YouTube's Architecture

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