Building a Global Video Streaming Platform with PHP

In this article, I'll walk through the architecture of TrendVidStream , a video streaming platform that aggregates trending content from 8 countries: US, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, UAE, Belgium, Czech Republic, and Finland. Architecture Overview The platform runs on PHP 8.3 with SQLite as the sole database, deployed across 4 LiteSpeed servers. Each server handles different global regions with its own cron schedule. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ TrendVidStream Architecture │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ YouTube API ──> PHP Fetcher ──> SQLite DB │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 8 Regions Normalize & 3-Tier Cache │ │ per cron Score ├─ LiteSpeed │ │ ├─ PHP File │ │ └─ PHP Data │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Data Model The core data model is simple. Videos have an ID, title, description, region, category, and metadata. SQLite stores everything: <?php class Database { private PDO $pdo ; public function __