With growing popularity of video sharing networks, video portals become an essential part of marketing web activities. While it is relatively easy to embed a video player into a website showing 10-20 videos, the real challenge is to develop a scalable video sharing portal with up to 10,000 visitors daily, tons of indexed movies with advanced search, intense commenting, categorization, tags, and, the most important – minimum time to load the page with video content.
In this presentation we would like to share our experience on how to efficiently and reliably structure video streams and servers for a medium-to-large size video sharing portal.








