I was on http://derrickcomedy.com and playing a youtube video when I noticed in the bottom left of the screen it said "transferring data from 74.125.13.99" going to http://74.125.13.99/ brings up a google not found error |
Probably Google uses their own web server, and instead of the ugly Apache "Not found" page, they show this.
It can be a fileserver, or maybe something else... (X Files music here) |
Header info:
<<Server: gvs 1.0>>
Google Video Server v1.0 maybe?
However, I see YouTube.com uses all these following web servers to handle different contents.
"Video Stats Server", "CFE/0.1", "lighttpd-yt/1.4.13.2", "btfe", "Apache". |
That's a mess! And they are trying to order world's information using different web servers?! Maybe they need different ones for each type of content, but why not to integrate them? (I know, maybe it's an insane work like trying to merge linux and OS X) |
Maybe YouTube is moving over to Google's servers, but slowly. For example, new videos might be uploaded to Google's servers and old one's slowly been migrated over. Maybe they're doing it at the same time as converting to h.264 for Apple TV and iPhone. It would make sense, as Google said YT videos would all be h.264 compatible in a couple of months and only a few thousand are at the moment.
Not sure if there is anyway to confirm this though. |
