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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by girst »

girst wrote: post #62

doing a `curl -v https://redirector.googlevideo.com ` (the host you'll connect to before getting redirected to the actual mp4/m4a streams) opens a tls connection (and gives a cert), but it then hangs for two minutes, before returning a 502. i'd wager some database storing info about the streams crashed :^D (given that it also crashes on /, it's more likely something else)

and now youtube.com/get_video_info, the undocumented endpoint for querying (among other things) streaming urls, is broken as well. returns "Video ID is invalid." or "An error occurred. Please try again later."

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Post by sorenjan »

Itsdijital wrote: post #54
drilldrive wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?

MM means mil mil or 1000 1000. Its the roman numeral for 1,000,000 and typically used today in finance.

MM is 2000 in roman numerals though. It's additive, not multiplicative.

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Post by floatingatoll »

PieUser wrote: post #66

Interesting how Instagram was also down for multiple days just recently [0].. [0] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/instagram-down...

Could you share with us what "Interesting" means to you? I wasn't able to interpret what it means without additional explanation.

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Post by SteveNuts »

chrisjc wrote: post #95
kparaju wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their dashboard says everything is up: https://status.cloud.google.com/

I remember a time when AWS went down and their status page said everything was fine. I think it had something to do with static content hosted on S3. I wonder if Google is have their moment :)

us-east-1 could literally be wiped off the map by a meteor and the AWS status page would show yellow triangle with "Elevated API error rates" for several days

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Post by alishan-l »

herpderperator wrote: post #101

I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying. Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.

Same here. Must be a database of some sort.

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Post by gregsadetsky »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #102

Does anyone want to try to calculate how much money google is losing every second YouTube is down? It must be astronomical, on the order of Amazon.

Amazon's revenue is ~10k/second.

Based on a recent 15B/year YouTube revenue figure I found, that would mean ~$500/second.

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