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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…

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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

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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This seems to be GCP related. I know the status page is all green currently... but we have a lot of services using GCP products and some are failing and showing increased latency. Pubsub failures as well.

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I was setting up a new network and thought it was my settings! I've been driving myself mad for the last 45 minutes thinking that I had fudged up somewhere! Thank goodness for this post

It was working fine for me until the minute I hit Upload on a video. I was entirely convinced I'd had my account auto-banned or something, and was very confused/frustrated. Couldn't find any mention of it anywhere at that point, then this thread popped up.

It's pretty telling that YouTube is so reliable, and Google is so horrible to their users, that my first instinct was that I got banned for no reason by some bot, rather than the site was broken.

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