<story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herpderperator</author><text>I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it&amp;#x27;s continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren&amp;#x27;t working. That&amp;#x27;s an interesting clue: the CDN isn&amp;#x27;t down as some people are implying.&lt;p&gt;Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>(googler, opinions are my own.  I know nothing about youtube specifically)&lt;p&gt;Youtube likely has lots of moving parts to host all the different systems.  Video content, search, browse, player, etc... could all be different bits.  And it&amp;#x27;s also fun to know that video content itself may not be hosted directly by Google, as you could get it from the GGC (Google Global Cache)[0].&lt;p&gt;When you have a system as big as Youtube, you need to think about all the different ways you can slice different parts of the service.  If any of those parts could be more optimized by having the data stored&amp;#x2F;sorted in some different way, it likely is.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;interconnect&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;9058809?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;interconnect&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;9058809?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herpderperator</author><text>I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it&amp;#x27;s continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren&amp;#x27;t working. That&amp;#x27;s an interesting clue: the CDN isn&amp;#x27;t down as some people are implying.&lt;p&gt;Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>girst</author><text>given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com&amp;#x2F;get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3---&amp;lt;something&amp;gt;.googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database storing where streams are actually hosted.</text></comment>