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Re:FixYT by cdoxsey on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:20PM (#6743607)
Where would you host the videos? The amount of traffic they see, and the amount of videos they store is incredible. For example:

http://9to5google.com/2013/11/11/netflix-and-youtube-account...

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Re:FixYT by zokier on Saturday November 16, 2013 @05:27AM (#6744357)
Self-host. YouTube produces massive amounts of traffic because it has so many videos. But if you divide all that traffic to small independent operators then the amounts would be far more manageable.

Once you are self-hosting you could alleviate any potential bandwidth issues with a CDN such as CloudFlare/Akamai and/or by using P2P protocols such as BitTorrent.

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