YouTube 'crashed' over 2 hours

Last night in Vietnam time, the world's largest video sharing site was paralyzed for more than two hours. This is a rare incident of YouTube and Google has not yet announced the cause.

About 0:00 on August 20 ( Vietnam time ), YouTube video sharing service has encountered a connection problem. Many users in the world, including Vietnam, when accessing youtube.com have seen the notice 500 Internal Server Error with the words " Sorry, something went wrong ".

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According to the message from isitdownrightnow.com , YouTube has collapsed within 12 minutes. The length of the incident may vary by region and country.

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The message on isitdownrightnow.com shows YouTube's server collapsed in about 12 minutes

The BGR page states that, in addition to the " 500 Internal Server Error " message, some users still access the YouTube interface at the time of the incident, but cannot view the content on the page. YouTube's main page has the words " An Error occurred. Please try again ".

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Error message when accessing the YouTube homepage during a crash

Until now, the YouTube website has returned to normal and accessible, but the mobile YouTube app still has some minor problems, leading to slow playback or sometimes being unable to watch videos. .

Google has not yet made an official comment on the problem and there have been no reports of users losing accounts, or any damage after YouTube " collapsed ".