Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by stefanpl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:49 AM UTC

And it's back!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by blihp » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

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.

Joe, the only YouTube support person in the office this evening, accidentally hit the pause button on the YouTube service in his admin console before stepping out for a long bathroom break. Hey, it could happen...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by swozey » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

From Ops to Ops, much respect YouTube/Goog and a tremendous pat on the back to this even being such a big deal.

I'll happily, but very-boredly, wait until you're done. :)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by rixrax » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

Looks like they're up again. :) Was that like a full hour of downtime. I hope they publish a postmortem. Like others have said, for me, Youtube has always been there. It is a odd feeling to have experienced [albeit shortly] internet sans Youtube [again].

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

nickthemagicman wrote: post #418

Globz wrote: 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…

Thats prob base64 and your IP might be in the decoded string.

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by trumped » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:51 AM UTC

Just came back up for me...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by samstave » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:52 AM UTC

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #238

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.

I totally forgot google video was a thing.

Heh so did i! That was a weird feeling...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by vertline3 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

gniv wrote: post #428

vertline3 wrote: post #250

We take a special Joy when things break, I wonder if there is a word for that?

A made-up word and a nice video, now that YT is back up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0

Wow! Yeah that feeling of the big storm

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by kevingrahl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by YesIndeed » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #347

videolectures.net is still up, so if anybody is bored... Here's a good one: http://videolectures.net/mackay_course_01/

David Mackay's videos and books (freely available) are all great. He was an excellent teacher, and doer.