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Do we really need these X is down posts? It's a pity that Youtube is down but it's not going to affect my day enormously and until there are technical details of why it was down it's rather tedious.

It is not always wasteful. Like I learned from one of the comments here that it could be a load balancer issue as other pages seem to be working.

Though I agree such posts are not terribly useful by itself, discussion around it can be interesting and insightful.

it's not going to effect my day

Sorry to be a pedant, but: affect

Thumb rule: when used as a verb, it's pretty much always "affect"; when a noun, "effect".

Alternately, John might actually mean he doesn't think YouTube being down will cause his day to happen enormously. :)

When I was young and learned that, I equated "Affect" to "Action", making "Effect" "Not An Action." It's silly, but I still use it to this day.

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey. Knuckle Months.

And so many others.

It's not always true though... better learn the actual meaning so you don't correct non-mistakes.

Going directly to a video page works though. Load balancer issues?

Yeah, same as with Amazon.com that one time.

   Content-Length:62
   Content-Type:text/html
   Date:Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:15:09 GMT
   Server:NS_6.1
   X-Xss-Protection:0
   
   <html><body><b>Http/1.1 Service Unavailable</b></body> </html>

And here is a way to check up on YouTube http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.youtube.com/

EDIT: there is also an occasional 503 coming through, so it's probably a load balancer mis-configuration issue. They will be able roll it back in no time.

"NS" in the Server header, by the way, stands for NetScaler.

Im surprised no one has put forward:

"revenge by china" slightly more on topic im struggling to belive they only have one load balancer for the whole of YouTube.

It seems more of a DNS round robin thing. I did jump to think of China when I first saw the headline also.

Who said they only have one load balancer?

Definitely back up now; still looking for clues on what caused all that recent outages:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

I'm not sure but I think yesterday and today all network is suffering from DNS issues.

But definitely strange, yesterday Google Analitics,reddit,Wikipedia(EN) were down,and twitter and gmail behaved strangely. Maybe was just the bad day for the network :)

Wow still dead wonder how much money this costs them? Guess it would be offpeak time right now which would be something I'd be thankful for, which is why we're shutdown and am running maintenance right now.

Aren't they cash flow negative? If so, they're actually saving money the longer they're down. Maybe it's a cost-cutting maneuver. :)

Yep back up now, lasted ~1.5 hr for me this morning http://bit.ly/a3hPk5

Could it be related to the current issue with China?

Seems up now.

Still down here on the east coast at 7:15 am.

It was up for a while, then Internal Server Error and now it is down again

Good grief! This is big... I mean, where will I now get my daily fix of dancing cats and piano playing dogs?

Jokes aside, it is a little strange.

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