BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Popular
video-sharing website YouTube.com suffered a six-hour breakdown Tuesday, leaving
millions of users without service. YouTube.com is located in San
Mateo, California, USA.
"We are experiencing a temporary
site outage due to a database-related issue," YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan
said in an e-mail to Reuters five hours after the outage began.
"To clarify and ensure accuracy, the site is not down
for maintenance," Supan said in a statement released shortly before the site
recovered. "This was an unplanned outage."
Access to
the YouTube site was cut off around 7:30 a.m. PDT and was restored about
six hours later at 1:30 p.m., according to the
spokeswoman.
YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing
sites where amateurs and professionals alike can share and view videos — of a
recent trip, of a new dog or even of themselves burping. Enditem
(Agencies)
