I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
You can feel it on YouTube when you try to access an old video that no one has watched in a long time.
every time it lags, it’s because youtube has to send someone down to the basement to retrieve the correct blu-ray disc from a storage room
Actual footage of data being manually retrieved from Google’s datacentre
And that guy is out today…
God bless those interns. Earning those college credits.
That’s the difference between getting a video served off a disk off in some random DC in some random state vs. the videos being served off a cache that lives at your ISP.
It’s not offline storage vs. disk, it’s a special edge-of-network cache vs. a video that doesn’t live in that cache, but is still on a hard drive.