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Youtube crashes
VIDEO SHARING SITE Youtube has been inaccessible for most of this morning.
Rather than the usual collection of skateboard riding dogs, movie trailers and copyright infringing content, visitors have been presented with a simple "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable' message, while embedded videos simply say "An error occurred, please try again later."
Youtube was created in February 2005 and bought by search giant Google in November 2006 for an impressive $1.65 billion. Despite all the legal wrangling, the site remains one of the most popular on the web and gets more traffic in a year than the entire Internet did in its first five years.
There is no word from Youtube or its Google overlords as to the cause of the outage, and speculation across social media sites like Twitter has already spanned major hardware faults, to targeted hack attacks - possibly in retaliation to the decision to pull out of China - to a roll out of a revamped version of the site.
Update Youtube apparently came back up some time early this afternoon, in both the US and the UK. We received the following statement from a spokesman: "Youtube is up again following a technical issue which has now been resolved. We know how important YouTube is for people and apologise for any inconvenience the downtime may have caused." µ
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Could just be a trick ot cut off all bandwidth for a while and save some money.
Has been down for a while for me with the
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
Error
To confuse the locator software, use a proxy such as TOR (The Onion Ring) to relocate your poit-of-presence to your preferred country :)
CST is Central Standard Time (US) which is at GMT-5
"nothing good has come from the location tracking"
What, you mean like a website presented in a language you can understand?
Many global sites use the IP to present pages in your local language. Google.com is a fine example. Unfortunately it gets a little confused it you use Opera Mini which goes through a proxy in Scandinavia.
Oh, and Dan, what on earth is CST? Could we please have times quoted based on a universal known like GMT?
I so hate how youtube always jumps to the local country settings by default then ask you if you want to keep that (No I will not allow persistent cookies), it's especially annoying because for some reason they think every person in some countries are completely fascinated by the same thing like soccer, which is totally untrue (figures confirm it is not true) and annoying if you hate soccer.
Anyway to make a short story (or excuse to post) that went long short again: it's up now for me.
I wish IP's were randomized and you were unable to tell which country they are in, nothing good has come from the location tracking, and it's getting worse now that some ISP's have started to fill in some approximations of the longtime/latitude fields in the DNS records, WHO NEEDS THAT goddammit.
do you think someone was having a DOS?
the public needs a new 'tube thats free of popups and junk ads
Looks fine to me
Lasted from 5:09am-7:33am CST for me this morning