Youtube, Gmail, and other Google services are having problems

503 errors and such...

Update: Google since confirmed the issues and offered the following update:

We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by 14/12/2020 12:12 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.

Gmail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.

Youtube is a product by Google, which everyone knows and everyone expects Google’s product to not fail.

But It seems that youtube been having issues this morning around 11:56am GMT.

It’s giving a 503 error

The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 503 Service Unavailable server error response code indicates that the server is not ready to handle the request. Common causes are a server that is down for maintenance or that is overloaded.

This means that either youtube is getting attacked, overloaded or somehow doing some maintenance that didn’t go as planned