YouTube Is Down 152
A number of readers have noted that YouTube is currently giving back 400 and 502 http errors, and has apparently been doing so for an hour or more. I suggest you use this window of opportunity to get something done: the dancing kitties will still be there when you're done.
Cricket/IPL Effect? (Score:5, Interesting)
Today Bangalore is playing in the IPL today and youtube is supposed to be streaming the match live [google.com]. The timing of this outage is almost coincidental. And not all of youtube is down, for instance, I clicked through to this video [youtube.com] which seems to be working.
Add to that, the fact that Airtel (my isp) has lifted the bandwidth limits for this particular Youtube channel (they have a local stream point, I guess ... it doesn't cost them upstream). [airtel.in]
So as soon as youtube is down, I head a groan all around my floor and people leaving their desks to go watch the match in the cafeteria. One of those odd situations when youtube going down probably caused a drop in productivity ;)
Anyone else notice the slow responses from Google? (Score:4, Interesting)
I've noticed lots of slow responses or no responses from Google servers lately. (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Search, Youtube, Google Maps, etc) It doesn't happen all the time, but many many times throughout the day. Has anyone else noticed this? If so, is anything known about it? DOS, etc?