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

[gnabgib]

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

[mrbluecoat]

And another on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696

[vivzkestrel]

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?

[esseph]

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

[Retr0id]

Why 8GB?