I personally have never understood the need to cache youtube videos. There is millions of them, and every day there are new ones that are popular. Even if it’s one music video, there are 100 versions of it. What chance do you have that your user will want the same one. Webpages are at least small, so you can cache what you want, but videos are big. How much storage do you need to have to cache 1% of youtube?
Exactly - I do network design for my own ISP and I’d LOVE a box that could cache just the 10 most viewed videos from youtube somewhere central in our backbone. I do however see NO point in caching on end-user equipment.
its absolute rubbish. i wasted a whole day messing with it and it did what for me? NOTHING! hardly did it ever cache anything. it kept saying every website i went to had dynamic content and is not cache’able. and thats true because the web today is all dynamic. gone are the days of yahoo.com or msn.com or whatevercrap.com where they had a static webpage and it was cache’able.
caching youtube videos is the dumbest thing every. there are millions of videos on youtube. you want to be lucky enough to have your office worker see the same crap-video you just saw?
If you are ISP, contact Google and install their caching servers in your data center. That is the only way to properly cache their services - to become part of their CDN. As I recall, requirements you must meet are few Gigabits of traffic and some data center certificates. That is very popular solution nowadays, since Youtube alone “eats” terryfing 30% of all traffic in average case.
I have a squid-based, self-made solution for youtube videos. Gives me about 30%-35% daily byte-hitrate, having about 20GB/day youtube traffic (incl. cached data), using 4TB of disk space.
As almost every computer when it goes online checks for updates can Thundercache or Cachebox cache Windows, Apple , Java , Adobe Updates, etc
Has anyone tried them and with limited expections do they work ?