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It actually makes me appreciate how reliable youtube has always been. I never even consider a youtube link might not work perfectly when I click one.
Makes a good case for self-hosting videos as a backup
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Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.
I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.
I'd argue that a youtube outage is worse. If google search is out, you can just use duckduckgo.
If you want to watch a video on youtube, you're SOL.
This is speaking from experience with blacklisting both google.com and youtube.com in my hosts file. I was doing fine with blacklisting google, but couldn't handle blacklisting youtube.
Try it yourself if you don't believe me.
Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or…
AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.
Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.
Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?
Still more likely that YT just made an oopsie.
I went and made dinner.
We take a special Joy when things break, I wonder if there is a word for that?
Here's a good one:
Think I felt a great disturbance on the net and woke up, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly presented with a black screen on their YouTubes. I fear something terrible has happened
Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or…
AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.