Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by shiado » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 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.

DNS, it is always DNS.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by riknos314 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

mml wrote: post #87

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

Youtube is owned by Google (since 2008). Would be highly surprised if they hosted anything on aws

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by SteveNuts » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

yertletheturtle wrote: post #81

jtchang wrote: post #13

This is going to be one good postmortem.

I sure hope they live stream it.

On Twitch of course

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by 9wzYQbTYsAIc » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

mml wrote: post #87

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

All greens according to https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by djsumdog » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

sarim wrote: post #58

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.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by LeoPanthera » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

deusofnull wrote: post #154

apetresc wrote: post #80

Interestingly, my youtube-dl archiving script is still chugging along with only a handful of elevated retry rates. So whatever the problem is, it's probably not at the API or CDN layers.

isn't it also strange that the shadow of their ui components are still loading?

They're generic templates to make you think the page is loading faster than it is. They don't represent the content that eventually (normally) shows up.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by rajacombinator » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

New NSA/google patch gone wrong?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by lavaslice » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

__george__ wrote: post #167

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.

I bet it’s a core network issue since it went down globally at the same time.. they deploy new binaries slowly so that shouldn’t cause it. Maybe some config was changed without testing?

i think that if this is the case, it's an fast and easy fix, but they haven't solved yet so i think this is not the issue

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by trevyn » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:02 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.

My vote: Bad configuration got pushed.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by userbinator » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

Very glad to see it's not just me. I was about to think they had a radical new redesign again with everything AJAX'd and decided to make it totally unusable in anything but the very very latest DRM-encumbered browser(s).