any case studies on how rapidshare etc. serve that much content/bandwidth?

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Would be interesting to read how these giant file serving type sites like rapidshare, yfrog, etc., serve up all that data.

Has anyone read anything about them before?

Probably bigger than rapidshare are the massive porn sites. There's an interesting article about how they serve bandwidth here: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites — Mark Henderson, May 10 '12 at 20:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '09 at 20:27

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Seriously, though, there's nothing "magic" about what they're doing. They're a content provider just like thousands of other companies/websites out there.

answered Dec 17 '09 at 20:27

EEAA

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you missed 4.5 ? :) – Chopper3 Dec 17 '09 at 20:52
Heh - I did indeed. – EEAA Dec 17 '09 at 21:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '12 at 17:57

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Also, the second tier of traffic heavy sites will often use the services of big CDNs, eg akamai, level3, cdnetworks.

answered May 10 '12 at 17:57

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any case studies on how rapidshare etc. serve that much content/bandwidth?

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