INTERNET VERSION 2 part two

16th, Monday, December, 2013


A video hosting platform, such as services like Youtube, Vimeo, Vine, Vidmeup and so many more intact there is 73 well known sites that host videos thats not including the other websites that are multiple platform hosting sites such newgrounds that hosts video, (mp4,mov,avi,m4v,ogg,ogv,wmv,mkv,webm,flv,3gp)and the raw flash file (SWF). This website also hosts images, games, literature and audio. 

The purposes of these video and multi-platform hosting services is also how (if you haven't already seen my previous post) the image sharing websites work a good example of this is Vine this particular service supports videos that have a limit of 7 second time to do a short message or even comedy, also popular site instagram allows us to do this but a much longer time frame to record, this is a limit of 15 seconds. 

The more popular video services such as youtube has a gargantuan user base with well over 1 billion different people visiting the website per month, which in that time there is roughly 6 billion hours of video uploaded, to every minuet there is 100 hours uploaded. An interesting fact is that the majority of youtubes traffic comes from outside the US 80%, What make youtube such popular website to upload is the partnership and google ad-sence which has allowed the users/constant content creators to leave their normal day jobs and work from home. 

The service of hosting videos for free viewing, a large and expensive service to provide. The warehouse that holds the many many servers that maintain the site this large company of which has data that stretches as far as 3 football pithes holding in over 100,000 server that each house 400GB of which was the capacity of 2008.  


The abilities of the video hosting services now days compared to the ability of 2005 (when it first started).