YouTube goes down for the first time

Incase you have had your head in the sand, YouTube, the popular video sharing social website actually went down for six hours on Tuesday morning. This was the first unplanned outage since launching in February 2005.

Though the message on the site said that new features were in the works, press have found out that it was a database failure that brought the site to its knees.

TechCrunch has more details on the whole event.

The biggest question on the table has always been about YouTube’s business model; today’s outage makes you wonder whether the company will be able to scale. YouTube announced that it was serving more than 100 million videos per day as of last month.

Update: YouTube’s problems today are now all over the web, getting loads of mainstream media coverage. Comscore is getting huge press today too, since the traffic report came out on the same as the failure. Freak PR windfall for both companies, unless YouTube continues to have service problems that is.

I think with their new Google deal, you will see YouTube spending more money on servers and making sure outages don't happen very often, and they should atleast get a few free mistakes before everyone gets up in arms.

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