YouTube, which hosts more than 100 million+ videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday — its first-ever unplanned outage.

“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.”

According to Internet audience measurement firm YouTube surged into the No. 40 ranking in July among U.S. Web sites, with 16 million visitors, up 20 percent just since June.

(Reuters)