Well here’s something you don’t see everyday. A few people sent word to us here at GemGfx, that YouTube the mother of all video sharing websites was down. Upon investigation we found that the site that boasts of about millions of visits per day was in fact down. We were greeted with a “Down for Maintenance” message when we tried to access the URL.

Needless to say, countless advertising dollars are trickling away because YouTube is unlike any other website around. Allan Stern over at Center Networks, says that it’s due to the YouTube CDN (static file server) being down. We can’t confirm this to be the reason, but we can confirm that the site is actually down. Some have suggested a DOS attack such as suffered by the big guns Facebook and Twitter in recent months. We also can’t confirm this.

We’ll wait for a statement from YouTube. In the meantime, there are many advertisers that are probably twisting their hands right about now. Not to mention, the large community of folks that did not have a life before YouTube came along. Nevertheless, we can be sure that they are working on the problem, whatever it is, and they’ll be back with us shortly.

Regards,
GemGfx

UPDATE:

As promised, as of 6:19pm November 9th, YouTube is back up. Everyone can breathe now.

Regards,
GemGfx.

Tags: denial of service attack, site down, site hacked, video sharing, videos, youtube