Posted on 03/25/2010 12:09:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – YouTube was hit by an outage on Thursday with some users temporarily unable to access the popular video-sharing service.
The Google-owned site delivered a "service unavailable" message to some users attempting to reach YouTube.com starting at around 7:00 am (1100 GMT) before coming back online around 8:30 am (1230 GMT).
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The Earth continues to spin .. and so does Obama.
(probably the Chinese..)
hmmm....and Wikipedia went down yesterday....ChiCom probing for holes in the ‘net continues
I think it’s the PRC red team also. This is to demonstrate their annoyance with Google’s re-routing of traffic to Hong Kong, where it can proceed mostly unfiltered.
I’m guessin China is pee’oed?
In related news, worker productivity rose 12.6% this morning, before settling back to baseline levels.
Obama can’t let his “friends” out in the middle east see any news implying he is talking with ISRAEL!!
My view: Google can’t buy/build servers fast enough to keep up with the growth in demand for YouTube streaming. The service has definitely slowed down over the last few months. At least IMHO it has. Your mileage may differ, but I doubt it.
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