YOUTUBE UP AT 7:31 AM SATURDAY, MAY 3RD

After being down for hours, YouTube's finally came up at 7:31 AM, or that's when I rechecked its status. More on this later, if any news comes in.

YOUTUBE DOWN AT 6:16 AM SATURDAY, MAY 3RD

I do not know how this happened, but YouTube is down and so is my 230 video channel. Centernetworks reports that -- yikes -- the DNS for YouTube has been hacked. Man Chad (Hurley, the co-founder of YouTube) must be going nuts.

Subject: route fully down
Pinging the Youtube DNS shows the route is down at the datacenter:

traceroute to 208.65.152.137 (208.65.152.137), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
...
3 xe-0-1-0-19.lon10.ip.tiscali.net (77.67.64.193) 1.094 ms 10.260 ms 1.101 ms
4 ge6-2-1000M.ar4.LON3.gblx.net (64.212.107.89) 1.392 ms 213.200.77.234 (213.200.77.234) 1.607 ms 1.708 ms
5 YOUTUBE-LLC.tengigabitethernet8-2.ar3.DCA3.gblx.net (208.48.1.186) 80.579 ms 80.300 ms 80.451 ms
6 * * *

YouTube's Up - But That Crash Was Huge

At 10:14 AM, YouTube came back up, but why it went down , I don't know. That was weird and unprecendented. Just goes to show you it's good to have videos on more than one system, or else.

But it's good that YouTube's back up -- having it down for a whole day would have been a disaster for millions of people.

It's gotten that large!

YouTube - What's The Deal With "Sorry About That, I Broke YouTube?"

And on top of all of the YouTube outages, I've seen these messages on Technorati:

"My bad… . [ IMG i-broke-youtube] Here is a deal… we was only uploading my many new video as well as it seems similar to we contingency have pennyless YouTube . we figured which possibly my video sucked so bad which we killed YouTube or simply YouTube only had an allergic greeting as well as it should be recuperating shortly. What have been your thoughts ? Will YouTube have it by this dire time ? Don’t be insane during Garry Conn, we didn’t intentionally kill YouTube, we suspicion my video rocked! [ IMG GarryConn] [ IMG]"

I've seen this twice.

What's the deal? Is someone trying to destroy YouTube? Is this a joke?

Has YouTube Crashed 4 Days Before The CNN / YouTube Republican Debate?

Wow. It's Sunday, November 25th at 10 AM.

For some reason, when I go to http://www.youtube.com I get this message:

"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

That's wild. It also means I can't review my video traffic or upload videos for the CNN / YouTube Debate. I tried to get to YouTube via my FireFox Browser, but again, I got:

"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

So what's going on, I don't know. I just know that in all the time I've used YouTube.com, I've never seen this. And it's certainly impacting the business of thousands of people, including CNN.

Yikes!