System and method for providing fault tolerant streaming of segmented content and cache coherency on multi-hosted origin systems

A fault tolerant system for streaming content to client devices, comprising:

• a first segmentation server configured to receive a content stream from a content source, segment the content stream into a set of segments, and generate a playlist, wherein the playlist comprises a list of the set of segments for the content stream and a location for each of the segments in the set of segments;
• wherein the first segmentation server is configured to independently create a segment number for each of the segments in the list of the set of segments in the playlist based on a playback clock and a target segment duration prior to serving the playlist to a client device;
• a second segmentation server configured to receive the content stream from the content source, segment the content stream into a second set of segments, and generate a second playlist, wherein the second playlist comprises a second list of the set of second segments for the content stream and a location for each of the segments in the second set of segments, wherein the second segmentation server is configured to independently create a second segment number for each of the segments in the second list of the second set of segments in the second playlist based on the playback clock and the target segment duration prior to serving the second playlist to a client device, wherein the second segment number for each of the segments in the second set of segments is the same as the segment number for each of the segments in the set of segments;
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• a caching server in communication with the first segmentation server and the second segmentation server, the caching server configured to receive a request for a requested segment and pass the request for the requested segment to the first segmentation server or the second segmentation server.