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    Who is/was YouTube's webhost?

    Who takes care of YouTube's webhosting? Maybe they've been moved to Google's servers, if so, what were they using before?

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    Yep google is hosting them but before that my money is on softlayer

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    It looks like they host themselves - the IPs are owned by them. Route takes me through level3.

    Yep google is hosting them but before that my money is on softlayer
    Not to say that this never occurred, but YouTube has been around longer than SL has...are you basing this on fact or do you just like SL?

    And it's not Google "hosting them" ... Google OWNS it.

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    YouTube has hundreds of servers and my guess is on different locations. I believe at least the main data center is own by them.
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    Level 3 speeds YouTube's video delivery with high speed Internet access through multiple 10 gigabits per second (10GigE) ports across a nationwide fiber network connecting YouTube's data centers.
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    Hrmm good question.

    nocebo, how you know Google owns youtube?
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    Rackspace I believe did host them earlier not sure about now.

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    nocebo, how you know Google owns youtube?
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/09...uired-youtube/

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    Quote Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
    how you know Google owns youtube?
    Are you kidding? Google purchased YouTube for 1.6 billion

    but YouTube has been around longer than SL has...
    For what i know you tube was born early this year, is SofLayer that new? anyway i'm sure they were never hosted by them
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    Quote Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
    Hrmm good question.

    nocebo, how you know Google owns youtube?
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/youtube.html

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    Previously it was rackspace.

    But I know since then there was an announcement about Level3 supporting Youtube so they are likely in a datacenter somewhere with google and on level bandwidth directly from level3.
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    For what i know you tube was born early this year, is SofLayer that new? anyway i'm sure they were never hosted by them
    SL is May '05, YouTube is Feb '05.

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    Also, I was wondering... YouTube started as a project for friends to share videos so they must have started with someone smaller. It would be interesting to know their webhosting history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nocebo
    SL is May '05, YouTube is Feb '05.
    Interesting thanks
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    Sad... I had no clue but thanks for the news
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    Quote Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
    Sad... I had no clue but thanks for the news
    LOL Come on man where have you been? it was all over the new
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    That's a pretty good question that I have been wondering myself for a while...

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    Quote Originally Posted by wbpro
    LOL Come on man where have you been? it was all over the new

    He was answering support tickets! </sarcasm>

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    Question

    Yes, I'm going to be honest and confess
    I'm a huge youtube user and I had no idea! Baaaaaah

    I was busy answering support tickets
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    Quote Originally Posted by vitalis
    Also, I was wondering... YouTube started as a project for friends to share videos so they must have started with someone smaller. It would be interesting to know their webhosting history.
    I thought youtube started pretty close to the VC $$$, so it was more than a side project between friends. But I would be interested in their history, from the get go, and who hosted them too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CX.Eric
    Yep google is hosting them but before that my money is on softlayer
    Where the hell did you pull this "fact" from?

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    For the main page Netcraft's record only date back to 30th October when it was on the same net as it is now which belongs to Youtube itself.

    However there seem to be other subdomains like static*.youtube.com, v*.youtube.com and cdn2.youtube.com which point to different networks ran by Rackspace, ServerBeach and Limelight. It seems that the first v* machines were all hosted at ServerBeach (v6 dates back to 19th December) and are now moved to Youtubes's own network (v64 for example). Youtube as of 28th April 2005 can be seen at http://web.archive.org/web/200504280...w.youtube.com/

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    They were hosted at ServerBitch, sorry I mean Beach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aussie Bob
    I thought youtube started pretty close to the VC $$$, so it was more than a side project between friends. But I would be interested in their history, from the get go, and who hosted them too.
    There you go Bob

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    YouTube.com was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.[3] Prior to PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005,[5] and the website was developed over the following months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, and six months later, YouTube made its official debut.

    In August of 2005, Macromedia released FlashPlayer 8, which uses On2 Technologies' VP6 video codec, providing a large increase in video quality compared to FlashPlayer 7 and had a very small download size, decreasing download time. For the first time ever, users did not have to use a separate video player, like Windows Media Player, Realplayer, or Apple's Quicktime Player. They could now watch decent video in a web page practically instantly. Without this new technology, it's unlikely YouTube would have taken off as fast as it did.

    The company's humble beginnings in a garage and commitment to offering free services necessitated outside financial backing. In November of 2005, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million;[6] additionally, Roelof Botha, partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal, joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia put an additional $8 million into the company, which had experienced a boom of popularity and growth in just its first few months.[7]
    See their first headquarters here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Y...adquarters.jpg
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    The company's humble beginnings in a garage...
    So maybe there's still hope for the rest of us and our crazy ideas.

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