It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage

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63 pointsaqeelat6 comments

Discussion (106 points, 1 hour ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055723

When I see these kinda posts, I always wonder,

- 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?

Why 8GB?

just took it as an example

Well, my understanding is that YouTube doesn't run on VMs, it runs on Borg (kubernetes precursor) containers... tens of millions of them.