YouTube has to monitor the uploading of robots, spiders and offline readers which inflate the number of views of a video by automated systems and is against their policy and their terms of service. Tricks such as automated viewing will result in the video being removed or account closed. The YouTube dedicated streaming servers had to handle the streaming of two videos in August 2008 whose numbers had been inflated to 95 million views each.
There was a lawsuit by a company whose url is utube.com. Their site was crashing because millions of online searchers entered their url by mistake. In August of 2006 the site got 68 million hits in that month alone. On the reverse side of this, their customers are searching under YouTube and through impatience the company is receiving a loss of customers and credibility.
You Tube Copycats
Now there are YouTube clone scripts being used by adult video producers to set up a dedicated server environment for the porn industry amongst others. The scripts and instruction for installation is widely offered. You need to have a dedicated server or a string of servers and they provide the mplayer, mencoder, flvtool2 (flash), ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php. Or for a low fee they will install it all on your dedicated server. It is not recommended to try and run a clone script on a shared server or with shared hosting as it needs root SSH access, ffmpeg support and unmetered bandwidth.
YouTube has to have thousands of servers with fast processors. It has been reported that google spent 1.5 billion on data centers to house their dedicated servers alone and that YouTube spends several million dollars per month on bandwidth. Dedicated server clusters are also required to back up files.
A Growing Website
YouTube hosts over 6 million videos every month and that figure is still growing. It takes 45 terabytes of storage. Wizzard and TubeMogul are video distribution sites that use their dedicated servers to instantly distribute, upload and tag your video to YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Revver and many more. Included in their service is their stats package which is apparently easy to install. Wizzard's revenues for their 2nd quarter of 2008 were up 3% from Q207 at 1.5 million. A total of 250 million shows were downloaded from their dedicated servers in just this quarter.
With an increased interest in online video from the mainstream advertising community the sales of Dedicated Servers is increasing as well. Stargate Holdings reported a 75% jump in sales in their first quarter last year.
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