YouTube Offline for An Hour
YouTube, like the iPod, has become a cultural phenomenon and part of our online lives. From politicians to pointless singers, everyone knows and uses YouTube. And that is why when the largest online video site goes down, it is major news. Of course it results in all sorts of rumors - DNS hacks, domain expirations or aliens landing on the roof of YouTube office (OK I made the last one up).
Actually the explanation might have been less exciting and proved to be a plain old technical snafu of sorts. A YouTube spokesperson said the service went down for an hour due to internal technical issues, and the problems have been fixed.
YouTube like many large consumer websites continues has had a history of outages. Check out the Pingdom page and get a good idea about YouTube’s track record so far. YouTube’s performance seems to have progressively improved since Google acquired the company for $1.6 billion back in 2006. YouTube receives about 10 hours of video per minute, and serves up terabytes of data per second. I will post an update later in the day.
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OK, which one of you changed to DNS for YouTube? - Enturbulation.org Activism Forums on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 am - Permalink
I like the aliens reason! No one can counter it!
Allen Stern on May 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 am - Permalink
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YouTube not working, was down for several hours | OBS News on May 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am - Permalink
@ Allen,
I am glad you see the humor in it ;-)
Om Malik on May 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 am - Permalink
Pretty cool that an “internal problem” at YouTube can cause DNS lookups across multiple worldwide servers to fail.
Strangely, in February YouTube exhibited a similar “problem”…
herman Manfred on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm - Permalink
Maybe the problem was caused by too many visitors at a time. Even the most advanced technology sometimes fail.
Vembl on May 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm - Permalink