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My Gmail is fast again

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Re: My Gmail is fast again

#21
I once worked with some reasonably large shared Web hosting companies and they frequently "oversold" on bandwidth, capacity, and the like - quite normal practice in the field.. and if people complained about slowness (perhaps their server was unlucky to have a handful of heavy users on it), they could be moved to quieter servers.

Seems like a similar thing is happening with GMail. The difference, though, is that most GMail users aren't paying a bean ;-)

Re: My Gmail is fast again

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention. Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400128 It's 404 now. I suspect (purely guessing) they specifically took that one picture down, but did not also "solve" the problem that left it there in the firs…

don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi, but it's spelled "voilà" "voila" (without the accent) would be perfectly acceptable as well. sorry! :)

"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi"

Would that be a grammar Vichy?

"it's spelled "voilà"

Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to indicate mock astonishment in context.

Thanks. :)

Re: My Gmail is fast again

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post #7
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Or in other words, yet another example of: "How to get meaningful support from Google" - be an internet personality in a community with enough clout to make noise - write blog post - wait - profit?? :) Seriously, though, glad it was all worked out (and, more to the point, we now have a teeny tiny indication as to where this issue stems from - for other users with problems)

This guy is more than just an Internet celebrity though, this guy runs a search engine as a competitor to them -- why are they watching his blog? (Or did they come across it by accident?) Speculative comment ahoy!

People at Google read Hacker News. It's that simple.

Re: My Gmail is fast again

#24
I think they swapped my account onto the old servers Gabe was on, because whilst mine was fast when I read the article, suddenly it's very slow (as in, 30 seconds to send an email slow).

I'd love to use Google Apps for my business, all employees already have Android phones so from that point of view it's a great idea. Things like this are what is stopping me from actually doing it.

That and I don't know if I could stand to be parted from mutt.

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