Kris Tarr

Can you imagine that a site as huge as YouTube (powered by a company as huge as Google) could go down for as long as an hour?

On February 24, OpenDSN posted this explanation to the fact that youtube.com was down:

“Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube.”

Spooky eh?
Let’s think about it for a moment: What precautions do you or your web hosting provider take to prevent downtime?