YouTube API v3 upload speeds

Question

I have been performing some testing with the YouTube API v3, uploading video files existing on my Apache server (VPS running CENTOS 6.7 x86_64 on Virtuozzo, 2GB RAM and a ton of

Answer 1

Having done a bit more testing, I have concluded the slow speeds are caused not because of throttling at at YouTube's end but more within the core infrastructure of PHP itself. However, I did managed to increase the speed using PHP from ~120KB/s to ~770KB/s by changing Google's example approach, using stream_get_contents instead of fread (credit to this post).

However, if you still need more, I'd suggest going the Python approach. Through the API I uploaded a 2GB file in 83 seconds, which comes out at ~24MB/s. It'd be interesting to know the fundamental programming reasons behind the drastic differences in speeds if anybody knows, though well out of my realm I'd hasten to add.