Most of the lines are under 3 feet of dirt or deeper and emp doesn't affect fiber like it does with solid wire. Just walk out and cut a fiber line, lol there are certain "backbones" in America that might be much deeper, those are all for military, but they all come up to the surface somewhere.
No, just a coordinated strike on most sites. All arent necessary. Take a few out and the rest cannot handle the traffic. The biggest problem is destruction that allows the insurance companies to deny the claim. Pudding? Cockroaches? Slime? EMP? Ants? False Alarm Fire Extinguishing System (ie sabotage)? AC unit failure? Its not hard to render a server farm inoperable, but if they get insurance money- its all for naught. And everyone, including their lawyers, have a price.
YouTube's backend is quite neat, as you say it is highly distributed and uses replication to get videos to the various servers, it sort of emulates how multicast works and the replication algorithms are really cleaver also.
YouTube uses an anycast IP address so you always get the the closest server. Some bigger ISPs co-locate YouTube servers so they are really close to the end user.
The infrastructure behind YouTube is awesome, the company is slimy filth.
Several different redundant locations, just like any large corporation.
It would take a nuclear apocalypse to bring down the infrastructure they've spent decades creating.
lol no it wouldn't just cut fiber lines
Most of the lines are under 3 feet of dirt or deeper and emp doesn't affect fiber like it does with solid wire. Just walk out and cut a fiber line, lol there are certain "backbones" in America that might be much deeper, those are all for military, but they all come up to the surface somewhere.
Their data centers probably have two main points where the fiber enters for redundancy. Those entry points get destroyed and their data is useless.
No, just a coordinated strike on most sites. All arent necessary. Take a few out and the rest cannot handle the traffic. The biggest problem is destruction that allows the insurance companies to deny the claim. Pudding? Cockroaches? Slime? EMP? Ants? False Alarm Fire Extinguishing System (ie sabotage)? AC unit failure? Its not hard to render a server farm inoperable, but if they get insurance money- its all for naught. And everyone, including their lawyers, have a price.
YouTube's backend is quite neat, as you say it is highly distributed and uses replication to get videos to the various servers, it sort of emulates how multicast works and the replication algorithms are really cleaver also.
YouTube uses an anycast IP address so you always get the the closest server. Some bigger ISPs co-locate YouTube servers so they are really close to the end user.
The infrastructure behind YouTube is awesome, the company is slimy filth.