Google seems to have a really rough time these weeks. First the issue with the adsense payments to some of those who selected payment via western union quick cash, and now the youtube issue again.

Youtube is down for more than a hour now, and yet again no one knows the reason. On 24th february Youtube was down for a few hours worldwide because of Pakistan’s attempt to block access to its population:

Ricardo Reyes(youtube spokesman)

“Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again”

I wonder what caused the downtime, and can’t wait for it to be back up again and see a spokesman’s statement regarding today’s downtime.

As usual i used Internetsupervision to check if youtube is down worldwide and that the issue isn’t on my side:

(click to enlarge) - Click here to check youtube

There’s nothing we can do, but wait till its back up, if your bored and want to watch some vids online till youtube is back visit Metacafe.

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You may have noticed that this page loaded very very slow(30 seconds). This slow load time is because the guys at servage messed up something again and the connection to the mysql clusters is slower than a snail. I argued with Scott(servage support) for a while, and got to this conclusion:

i highly doubt that this issue is affecting only my account and that its not fixable

one thing is certain, that the issue is on servage’s side and that i tried what i could to get the issue fixed. From this point the duty to fix the issue is the technical teams @ servage.

cheers,
Tom

Scott offered to move my account to a new cluster, but said that all my websites will be unaccessible for about 24 hours, so i told him what i wrote above. If the issue persists il start getting grumpy and most probably will have a chat with an admin at servage(again).