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Thread: Who is/was YouTube's webhost?
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11-29-2006, 01:30 AM #1Web Hosting Guru
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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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11-29-2006, 01:31 AM #2Junior Guru
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Yep google is hosting them but before that my money is on softlayer
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11-29-2006, 01:33 AM #3antitheistic atheist
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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
And it's not Google "hosting them" ... Google OWNS it.
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11-29-2006, 01:35 AM #4I'm Back!
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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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11-29-2006, 01:39 AM #5I'm Back!
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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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11-29-2006, 01:39 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Hrmm good question.
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11-29-2006, 01:40 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Rackspace I believe did host them earlier not sure about now.
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11-29-2006, 01:42 AM #8antitheistic atheist
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nocebo, how you know Google owns youtube?
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11-29-2006, 01:44 AM #9I'm Back!
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Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
but YouTube has been around longer than SL has...
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11-29-2006, 01:45 AM #10Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
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11-29-2006, 01:45 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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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.Matt Wallis
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11-29-2006, 01:46 AM #12antitheistic atheist
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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
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11-29-2006, 01:49 AM #13Web Hosting Guru
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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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11-29-2006, 01:50 AM #14I'm Back!
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Originally Posted by nocebo
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11-29-2006, 01:55 AM #15Web Hosting Master
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Sad... I had no clue but thanks for the news
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11-29-2006, 01:58 AM #16I'm Back!
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Originally Posted by sTag-Dan
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11-29-2006, 02:07 AM #17Over there
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That's a pretty good question that I have been wondering myself for a while...
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11-29-2006, 02:54 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by wbpro
He was answering support tickets! </sarcasm>
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11-29-2006, 02:56 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Yes, I'm going to be honest and confess
I'm a huge youtube user and I had no idea! Baaaaaah
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11-29-2006, 08:08 AM #21Away
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11-29-2006, 08:52 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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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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11-29-2006, 09:12 AM #23WHT Addict
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They were hosted at ServerBitch, sorry I mean Beach.
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11-29-2006, 11:10 AM #25Junior Guru Wannabe
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The company's humble beginnings in a garage...