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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by djsumdog »

Thaxll wrote: post #200
sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

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.

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Post by bepvte »

kiostech wrote: post #129
mitchtbaum wrote: post #100

Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

https://d.tube/

Opened it up, saw a foot fetish video on the front page.

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Post by TillE »

djsumdog wrote: post #215
sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

In the early days it went down all the time. Same with all of their competitors. The YouTube engineers had a Python+Mysql+lighttpd stack and even had a fork of lighttp for faster performance. They spent every day eliminating bottlenecks until it was stable and then Google bought them. The original talk about their stack was on Google Videos back in the day. Now sure if it got moved to the YouBoobs.

I don't remember the exact timeline of YouTube's growth, but I think during the time period when it was the most popular site for pirated TV shows, it was really stable and has been ever since.

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Post by khazhou »

corodra wrote: post #102

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.

$20 says it was Greg. Again!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

djsumdog wrote: post #215
sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

In the early days it went down all the time. Same with all of their competitors. The YouTube engineers had a Python+Mysql+lighttpd stack and even had a fork of lighttp for faster performance. They spent every day eliminating bottlenecks until it was stable and then Google bought them. The original talk about their stack was on Google Videos back in the day. Now sure if it got moved to the YouBoobs.

I totally forgot google video was a thing.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by mark-r »

Escapado wrote: post #115
corodra wrote: post #102

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?

Maybe it's a brain teaser - if you can answer how to DDoS Youtube, they'll call you up for an interview.
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