What is the best way to store lots of video in a web application? Hardware, Database, etc. If you were building a YouTube clone, how would you do it?
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I believe the way youtube handles it is storing the file location in a table in the DB, so when the request is made the file is located from the hard drive and then loads the file from there.
Take a look at: http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture for more info.
TStamper
2009-04-21 05:14:05