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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#331

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

Only getting like 1 peer per video and <150kb download.

I had the same problem, but it was because one of my privacy extensions had disabled WebRTC.

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 :)

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.

It's still Python+MySQL for what I can tell. But also has parts in Go (see i.e. their work on vitess to scale MySQL access https://vitess.io/ )

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#334

Youtube-dl is also not working surprisingly. It's crazy how I still assumed it was my network and not youtube. Speaks to how much I depend and rely on youtube being available as a staple in my life. For me the error just says webpage is unavailable. I am in NJ so east coast has a large outage probably.

I tried my phone, laptop and remote server and nothing worked. But I still thought it was a problem with the video until I read it on Mastodon.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Que bacan weon! Estoy en viña ahorita. Sabes por que Movistar es muy lento com LTE aca?

Are you on prepaid? Virtually all Chilean prepaid carriers are deathly slow, especially outside of Santiago. I had barely any service in Algarrobo on Claro, but postpaid plans ran just fine, especially Claro, even in crazy places like Farellones :) For what it's worth, I hated every second of my life in vina and that stupid town to the north of it and also Valparaiso. God, bring me back to La Parva or Embalse El Yeso…

I’m currently roaming on a post paid US plan. When I arrived in Chile I had 3G on Claro. Then it switched me to LTE on Movistar. 3G on Claro was more reliable.

Interesting to know about pre vs post paid. Will keep it in mind for longer trips when I normally buy a local SIM.

We just spent the last week in Torres del Paine backpacking around ... what an amazing place! Going to spend a couple days in viña and then headed to Conce to see some old friends. I’ve not been to La Parva but will add it to the list!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#337

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.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#338
post #108

Do they encrypt the server side error stack trace? 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them): APkpgMWbWQ3LvimPoFynDB0W8VeUJ9ECiPcDCm8L0Qiku1I2TbAShWp- taKn-AzOGigwq0sU4oe9mbWb2Bwv4BK37C5xOAL7qm11fHn4L0swqhLk wbcnyKH2HM3AQNf-ucVsolyigJTNKA2SSNUMV…

I too would like to know more about this such as is it encrypted by any know method (ex: pgp)? It's rather brilliant if it's an encrypted stack trace or similar. I imagine it might even contain info about who the user is as well (if logged in or tracked via cookie) to help them debug it more.
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