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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by mr_toad »

augusto-moura wrote: post #21
birdyrooster wrote: post #18

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

Vimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.

Re: YouTube Down

#33

Post by rasz »

penagwin wrote: post #15

I vpn'd around, this appears to be global. While reading something unrelated my video suddenly started playing. I think it's load balancer related for whatever is serving their videos EDIT: Once you have a connection you appear to keep it the entire way through (at least it did for me with youtubedl). Something related to connection queueing...

yep, had long video opened (in mplayer) when this started. I stopped it while reading your post, trying to reconnect results in 502.

Re: YouTube Down

#34

Post by jedberg »

jtchang wrote: post #23

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

And we know that it isn't flat throughout the day. I imagine this is probably peak earning time for them, assuming they bulk of the revenue is US based.

Re: YouTube Down

#35

Post by drilldrive »

jtchang wrote: post #23

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

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

Re: YouTube Down

#36

Post by sundvor »

augusto-moura wrote: post #21
birdyrooster wrote: post #18

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

YouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.

Re: YouTube Down

#38

Post by AnimalMuppet »

aaomidi wrote: post #4

And cue all other major services going down in the next few days.

I'm not at that level of paranoia yet. In fact, I'm a long way from it.

If it happens, though, my paranoia is going to climb dramatically...

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