Reuters: YouTube suffers first unplanned site outage

[DeepModem Mom]

YouTube suffers first unplanned site outage
Tue Aug 15, 2006
By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web video sensation YouTube.com, which serves up more than 100 million videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday -- its first-ever unplanned outage, a company spokeswoman confirmed.

"We are experiencing a temporary site outage due to a database-related issue," YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan said in an e-mail to Reuters five hours after the outage began.

"To clarify and ensure accuracy, the site is not down for maintenance," Supan said in a statement released shortly before the site recovered. "This was an unplanned outage."

Access to the YouTube site was cut off around 7:30 a.m. PDT (1430 GMT) and was only restored around 1:30 p.m. PDT (2030 GMT), or six hours later, according the spokeswoman.

The breakdown came as Internet audience measurement firm comScore Networks on Tuesday released data showing how YouTube surged into the No. 40 ranking in July among U.S. Web sites, with 16 million visitors, up 20 percent just since June....

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[KurtNYC]

1. And they didn't blame Lamont?

Imagine that.

[thepurpose]

4. Of course not though they are reserving the right blame Clinton at a later

date.

[KamaAina]

2. Hmmm... just when everyone was looking for the Allen/macaca clip...

:tinfoilhat:

[Robb]

3. Well, plus Pastrana did that double back flip. nt

[Endangered Specie]

5. Damn thing went down when I was trying to watch Dave Chappelle...

one of my favorite shorts (Everyone is racist on a plane) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25qYnKQTnTY

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It amazes me that YouTube can afford its bandwidth

because the capacity of their connection must be phenomenal, but they can't get that much in advertising.

[TheWatcher]

7. Like I have said in the past

Enjoy YouTube while it lasts. It is a treasure.

But like MySpace, The Corporate world cannot allow something like that to exist in the wild.

The will acquire it. They will exploit it. And they will destroy it.

In the end, the common people cannot be allowed any freedom at all, as far as the Corporatists are concerned. Anything to call their own. Anything to exist independent of them.

Don't think they haven't noticed YouTube.