It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage(9to5google.com)
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It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/
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Well, my understanding is that YouTube doesn't run on VMs, it runs on Borg (kubernetes precursor) containers... tens of millions of them.
Discussion (106 points, 1 hour ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055723
And another on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696
- just how many 8GB ram servers do you actually think youtube runs?
- how many petabytes of capacity do they actually have?
- if your revenue from advertising is more or less going to be between a ballpark range, how do you manage ever increasing storage costs?