Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by wolf550e » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

johannes1234321 wrote: post #333

djsumdog wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/ )

They now run their python code using a transpiler into Go with a Go runtime and Go libraries: https://github.com/google/grumpy

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by 6502nerdface » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #181

Let's speculate, how much money would you guys guess is being lost every minute of downtime?

> Estimates for YouTube's annual revenue, nearly all of which still comes from ads, vary a fair amount. But many of the estimates are now above $10 billion. At different points, Bank of America and Mizuho forecast that YouTube would post 2017 revenue of $13 billion and $12 billion, respectively. And in February, Baird's Colin Sebastian estimated YouTube is doing around $15 billion in annual sales. [0]

I think that works out to a bit more than $28k/minute.

[0] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/youtube-might-be-worth-o...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ASalazarMX » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

Right now the front page loaded, but no video played and a refresh went back to just placeholders.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by tdy721 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

mml wrote: post #87

my aws-based builds just went from 5.5m to > 15m about when this started. aws issue?

everybody just started working

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by djsumdog » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #259

bepvte wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's like old Youtube then.

Or like random network shares on the University dorm network.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #337

walrus01 wrote: post #69

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.

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by O_H_E » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #318

kobayashi wrote: post #195

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,…

This is what happens when one is the user be not the customer

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by pmart123 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

MitchellCash wrote: post #289

Some analysts predict YouTube to bring in $15 billion in ad revenue in 2018. If so, they are losing around $28,000 for every minute they are down.

I think you meant $280,000?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ozaark » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

SteveNuts wrote: post #341

ozaark wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes a good case for self-hosting videos as a backup

Or a good case for keeping one or two physical paper books on a bookshelf, and maybe a candle and lighter.

I don't think yt being down is a signal for the end of times