How does YouTube manage all of the videos on the site?

Question

I was wondering how YouTube, or Google, manages all of the videos on the site. Since there are so many videos on Youtube these days....how do they do it?


because I think it would be a good idea to delete some old videos so the site can speed up...as of 2013 February:

1) youtube takes ages to load
2) I have to open multiple youtube pages to make a video load

3) too many ads

Youtube needs to do a better job of organization...

Answer 1

I think you should be asking how Google manages all the data. YouTube is owned by Google, and Google has only so many dedicated servers which is pretty much 2% of the entire world's servers. "Bigtable" is the database/distributed storage system built by Google for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.



Slow buffering on YouTube videos is your internet/computer's fault, not Youtube nor Google. If you think advertisements which are like, I don't know, less than 30 seconds and you also get an option to skip it, are annoying, install AdBlock.

Answer 2

well google for example dont have most of their videos hosted off other sites as google is just a search tool, and youtube just has monstrous virtual space and all the videos that are uploaded cannot be deleted, as they do not own them unless they breach the rules, so basically, its just space and hosting, all of which is payed for with the ads that people pay to have shown

Answer 3

They can't delete videos, all of them are user uploaded, they don't own them.



The ads are placed so that the uploader can make money. If videos load too slow, that's your internet's fault.



I've never had an issue loading videos

Answer 4

difficult thing. query on to google. that can assist!