Not all YouTube videos are equidistant from you in the cloud. Copies of YouTube videos are hosted in different locations. The most popular content is on Google’s CDN. The rest are in various colos across the US.

Longtime Youtube engineer Cuong Do explains that and more in Behind the Scenes: A Look into YouTube’s Architecture. Enjoy his horror stories from the early days.

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