“YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly,” says the site. The site first went down at around 9:30 California time. Or possibly earlier, we’re sorting through the Twitter barrage – “is down” is a trending topic right now.
Most companies plan maintenance for short periods in the middle of the night, so our guess is this is maintenance of the unplanned sort. 2+ hours and counting isn’t a trivial amount of downtime. We’ve asked Google for a statement on when it might be back up, and what caused the outage.
Update: Erictric says this may be part of a YouTube store rollout. I’m dubious.
Update 2: A YouTube spokesperson says: “We are aware that some users are having difficulty accessing videos on YouTube. We are working hard to fix the issue and will have the site back to normal as soon as possible.”
Maybe they’re pulling an Apple and updating their product line.
Also, it’s working for me. You should link to youtube.com instead of youtube.com/oops/error.html
Well this is a terrible way to start off November.
It’s working for me right now?
For every maintenance started, the corruption advance one step further
It’s back up with new features like existing gmail contact subscription suggestions and comment search.
It was down for a while 17:40 GMT. Then it came back. Now it was down for a while again 19:35.
Doesn’t look like a planned maintenance.
Working fine in india right now 1:17 AM IST
Working fine in Finland!
Working perfectly fine in France.
working fine in indonesia
Its not working. stop saying its working when its not working and making up stuff. its really annoying.
From UK
Incredibly slow response in NYC (30s+) but that could just be another example of Time Warner’s epic service.
Was slow loading, but it works. Got to see a tranny mace a small boy. Comedy gold!!
Traced it back to Nov 1, 2009 06:39 PM GMT, which is about 10:30 AM in SF.
Just an FYI: It seems that they are checking your gmail contacts against Youtube accounts.
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Public Domain.
They have been doing that to my account for well over 1 week so its not something new about the gmail contacts
Was back up for about 15 minutes or so (at least from the Montreal, Canada area) from 14h15-15h00 EST but now back down again.
I agree with the synopsis; this is certainly not “maintenance”… if it’s DDOS, then it seems limited to YouTube as a target.
Ah well, will do my video searches on Vimeo for now.
Very inconvenient.
Let’s read a book, people.
facker down in canada i need topfap
Down for me in South Bay
What a pain.. I am spending hangover day watching videos on vimeo.
Here, must share:
http://vimeo.com/7285636
working for me…
working in Texas
Looks like it is back! Hallelujah!
Humm strange that they say it’s down but you can still click the links for Featured / Popular videos?
It seems it’s not a full service outage and not everywhere in the world obviously since they must have servers in different spots of the world I guess
Non only down, sometimes it gives an Internal Server Error.
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This caption is about 12:00 hrs GMT-6 Nov/01/2009.
Right now it seems to be working (I’m in Mexico), but all morning has been working and going down several times.
Well its working in Pakistan with all features.
So the real concern is it’s not just YouTube’s site that’s down, but their API has been sporadically inaccessible/unreliable throughout the last week or so.
This is usually the result of something more sinister than site feature upgrades, and my guess is that caching may be failing at some level.
Typically in a large-scale web app, every search result, page, video, text, and/or image you see must be cached. Without caching every single thing in the system including things at the code-level, sites at the scale of Facebook, YouTube or Google would collapse instantly, or timeout indefinitely.
In related news, day-light saving kicked in today.
Our Object Modeling teacher once told us…’Once you deployed your product is always nice to catch exceptions and errors and when they occur just show user screen or webpage that says that youre updating some core features or backing up database or whatever while you actually send some log file into your bug tracker..the user will be happy that they wont see any ugly exception stack tracers and that youre still working on the product even after its been deployed’ .. (class laughed) .. ‘that laugh suggest that you have never worked on any business project’ (more laugh)
anyway this just reminded me of that lecture…;]
YouTube is working in San Diego, CA!
This is terrible, I had unimportant work to get done today
Same error happened a few days ago.
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Also working in Austria .. no problems here
It sounds like something big is happening with YouTube.
“A YouTube spokesperson says: “We are aware that some users are having difficulty accessing videos on YouTube. We are working hard to fix the issue and will have the site back to normal as soon as possible.””
Congratulations to this Youtube spokesperson for dodging the question completely. I wonder if corporate people will ever get tired of total non-answers whereas the first sentence is completely useless. I’m glad you guys are ‘aware’, because the people asking you why the site was down were already aware it was down.
You lie !!!!!!!!!
Regarding your choice of picture format (jpg) I point you to the following page:
http://lbrandy....-last-webcomic/
working fine in Indiana
It’s down all year around in China.
What am I going to do today? ohh my GOD, help me.
Unbelievable!!
Unbelievable!!
Down again right now?
Is everyone else seeing youtube.com down again?