500 Internal Server Error

not sure if this is the right board but anyway
I was checking some videos on youtube, and then out of nowhere after I clicked a link
I got this

It speaks about highly trained monkeys >_>
Is this normal? Did anyone else got this page?
And what is that?

its an error with youtube's server configuration.

oh I thought it was a virus cause it spoke about a team of monkeys

no, its supposed to be amusing.

but still can't they make a normal error page? >_>

why? They're boring and that page has extra information that a normal error page doesnt have. The rubbish at the bottom is encoded and when decoded it will tell them what you were doing and what happened to cause the error, which is important if they need to fix something.

oh so you mean that scribbling down there is actually really important?

Duh; it says to include that in your error report. But honestly, YouTube really sucks at managing their site. Videos are often glitchy and they perform maintenance on the servers during peak hours. Also, videos download really slow for some reason, even on my wicked FiOS connection.

Replying to #8

probably a combination of bandwidth congestion at their end, inadequate routing and the fact its flash video that more than likely hasn't been encoded optimally.

Hehe, Google routes inadequately. :PIt used to be really fast; I guess they became too popular.