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CDN video caching duration

Are there any standards about for how long (days, weeks) do CDNs cache video content? This other answer suggested that it is only for a short period of time (e.g. 1 day) but that information is almost a decade old by now. For regular (non-video)…
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Need help to choose a desktop or server for the 50 clients in a local network?

We are going to build a application for school labs. Each lab contains maximum 60 students and all the students has to be connected in a local network. Each student will get a Android tablet or a desktop to watch the videos which will be served from…
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Server/storage choice for very low bandwidth video hosting

I have a unique project where I'm needing host several terabytes of short ~15mb mp4 video files, of which each video will only be viewed once. Is a CDN recommended here? Or would a basic storage solution like AWS S3, or DigitalOcean's Block Storage…
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Video Uploading on Amazon instances?

I am having real problems trying to wrap my head around my problem. I have decided on the middle and end solution to my problem but I can't seem to work out the the beginning of it. So as a bit of a project I'm building a Youtube style site. My…
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Will uploading a 1.4gb video to my server and letting users watch it fill my servers RAM/Virtual Memory and crash the server?

I'm a bit unclear how the the RAM is used in this particular instance, so I'm wondering if when a user watches a video on my server, does it go from the filesystem, "out through the pipes" and onto my users screen, or does it go:…
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How to read network card specs

i am in the need of buying a rack server which will serve static video files to users. Each video file will be between 30MB and 50MB and we expect up to 16k concurrent users. I was looking for servers and i found some nice ones from HP and DELL but…
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Where to store social network photos and videos?

I have a social network with 100,000 users. I allow users to upload photos and videos now I feel like it is becoming too much for my dedicated server. Should I get another dedicated server? A content delivery network? A cloud storage like amazon…
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