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Derral here, I bet you're trying to figure out why your video is frozen at 301 views
and not going anywhere. Well, in this video not only am I going to show you why it freezes
at 301, but how YouTube actually works globally. Stay Tuned. Now before I can explain to you
why the video freezes at 301 we need to understand YouTube and how it operates globally. Now
this is really simple, YouTube actually has a facility that stores your videos and they're
all over the world! For example, if I'm ready to upload a video, and I'm in the United States,
it's going to find a data center closest to me. That data facility will actually house
that video. So we upload it, and once it's housed there it's going to make a copy of
it, or what they call "cache" and it's going to send it out to all their other data facilities
throughout the world. And now you're video is actually stored throughout the world so
if you're in Madagascar you're going to find the facility closest to you to watch that
video. It's not going to go all the way back to the United States to watch that video.
Or the same in Australia or in Beijing, or in New York, or wherever you're at. So let
me show you this as an example. So if we have, actually, Jose, and Jose lives in Paraguay.
Jose wants to watch your video, he searches for it and he actually finds it, clicks on
it, and once he goes he goes right to the data center that's closest to him. Now, that
actually records as a video view. Now this is where you want to pay attention, that when
he watches that video it actually creates a log and that log pops up and says "oh, Jose
just watched this from Paraguay and that's one video view." Then that log is actually
sent back to a central location saying that it recorded one view at that YouTube facility.
Now, once that's done then updates it across the board like all the servers across the
board saying that that one video actually has a view. Now here's where it gets really
interesting, let's say that we have 998 people want to watch that video in one day. So they're
all around the world, all hitting different facilities, they're all getting those different
video views, the log files are starting to come up and it sends it back to that central
location. And what happens next is YouTube does a verification, it says, "wait a minute,
we want to make sure that those 998 views were actually real" and not some bot or something
like that. So it actually puts it on a temporary hold for 301. That 301 is then sent out to
all the different servers out there. So you're able to see the views as 301 while it evaluates
to see if those are actual views. Once it goes through that verification process you'll
go ahead and get a green light. Then the hold comes off and then you actually have all your
video views. Hey thanks for watching that video. Now, as I'm waiting for this to stop
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