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Old 01-16-2013, 05:04 AM  
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d View Post
That't not nessesarily huge. The real bottleneck is disk io on video downloads. If for instance he doesn't host the vids himself and uses embeds or sponsor videos, then a single server should be able to handle that without any problems.

It's really next to impossible to predict how much server power someone needs for a tube...all the vids are different bitrates, you don't know how the users will behave (1 video each or 10 each, watch whole video or 10 seconds and move to the next one around in it, or skip around in one video, etc)...too many variables.
Yeah that's a pretty good point. I imagine they could be a nightmare to scale depending on how operations were. 300K of basically static pages would be rather simplistic. But I imagine 300,000 30m+ videos would be another story.

Best of luck scaling it out!
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