In 2024, the load on VK Video servers increased by 200% compared to 2023, and the load on VKontakte servers increased by 35% due to the growth of the audience and its activity. This was reported to RB.RU by the VK press service.

The load on VK Video servers has tripled in a year
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“According to Mediascope, in December 2024, VKontakte’s monthly audience in Russia increased to 92 million users. “VK Video’s daily record reached 3.3 billion views,” the company said.

They explained that the social network team expanded the CDN network and increased the bandwidth to 12 Tbit/s in all regions of Russia and the CIS countries, and also transferred 20% of the infrastructure load to the cloud platform to increase server reliability.

In addition, the developers have adapted automatic replication management (data synchronization across copies of multiple databases) and failover systems for more than 100 key databases, ensuring uninterrupted processing of more than 2 million user requests per second.

In 2025, to increase the reliability of the VKontakte platform, it plans to completely switch to cloud infrastructure, as well as use a service approach in building the architecture of the social network, the press service added.

In mid-January, RBC, citing data from Mediascope, wrote that VKontakte for the first time surpassed YouTube in terms of monthly audience. In December, the Russian platform was visited by 92 million people, while the foreign platform was visited by 89.6 million.

YouTube started slowing down in Russia last summer. Google, owner of the video hosting site, said the problems in its operation are not related to problems or actions on the part of the company. Roskomnadzor explained the problems by saying that Google “has stopped supporting the infrastructure of its cache servers in our communication networks.”

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Bogdan Muzychenko

Source: RB

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