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If there is no budget limit, what are the things needed to host a website something like youtube?

I know this question is very broad, to narrow down, here is what I need to know:

  1. How many servers youtube is using? Example: 1 mail server, 1 main database server (with several clones to support), 1 web server, etc

  2. Bandwidth is another crazy things. How does youtube handle its bandwidth stuff?

  3. Any technical stuff I need to know?

  4. Please advice some technology you know that you think youtube might be using it?

  5. Any other useful tips or advise?

Thanks.

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Appart that this question is not really relevant :

  • lots of bandwith (a few 10 Gbit lines)
  • lots of CPU power (converting videos)
  • lots of space

I'd probably get a few blade servers, a very fast SAN server and cluster some webservers and databases. (considering you are scaling like youtube ofcourse).

Anyway google has their own way of building datacenters

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