YouTube.com goes down unexpectedly

Six hour breakdown of service


16 August 2006 11:58 GMT / By Amber Maitland

Popular video-hosting site YouTube.com went down in an unplanned outage for the first time on Tuesday.

The site regularly schedules downtime for updates, and lets users know in advance.

However, the 6-hour breakdown on Tuesday was a temporary outage due to a database problem, said a spokesperson to Reuters.

YouTube.com is the 40th most popular site in the US, and has increased its traffic by 20% since June.
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