There isn’t at the moment, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be. YouTube doesn’t have anything special, it’s just the most popular, and by virtue of being the most popular people use it more. You need to understand that YouTube is HUGE, we’re talking possibly the largest server farm in the world. Just the amount of storage needed is ridiculous, not to mention the amount of people working to do everything from service the servers to moderate content. It’s impossible for anything to compete right now.
But this was also the case for Yahoo back in the day, and Google appeared and essentially wiped them out.
I meant to say it’s not special as a platform, it doesn’t have any feature that other video hosting platforms can’t offer. But like the rest of my post mentions it’s got an infrastructure that’s too expensive to reproduce, no other video hosting site comes close, not even by a long shot, but that’s not really a “YouTube” thing, any other video hosting site that has reached that amount of content would be the same size.
There isn’t at the moment, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be. YouTube doesn’t have anything special, it’s just the most popular, and by virtue of being the most popular people use it more. You need to understand that YouTube is HUGE, we’re talking possibly the largest server farm in the world. Just the amount of storage needed is ridiculous, not to mention the amount of people working to do everything from service the servers to moderate content. It’s impossible for anything to compete right now.
But this was also the case for Yahoo back in the day, and Google appeared and essentially wiped them out.
Infinite money isn’t anything special?
I meant to say it’s not special as a platform, it doesn’t have any feature that other video hosting platforms can’t offer. But like the rest of my post mentions it’s got an infrastructure that’s too expensive to reproduce, no other video hosting site comes close, not even by a long shot, but that’s not really a “YouTube” thing, any other video hosting site that has reached that amount of content would be the same size.
YouTube literally has data centers full of custom silicon which is 20-33x more efficient compared to general-purpose hardware.