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I'm guessing this outage will allow GSuite customers to claim Service Credits under the SLA - does anyone have any experience with doing so? Google's documentation is lacking in detail[0]. [0] https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html
I’d like to add something like that to StatusGator but I’m unsure if there’s a market.
There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997
Google does a once per year disaster recovery training... They do things like deliberately turn off datacenters with no warning. Sometimes failover systems don't work as intended. Was that this week?
There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997
Millions of people are searching simultaneously at google.com or youtube.com but servers are not crashing. Issue is not traffic overload but something else.
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But I'm sure similar infrastructure architecture was applied to gmail.com as it was to google.com and youtube.com. And similar concepts of maintaining by sysadmins are practiced.
Hah... Press and hold the F5 key on your keyboard for 2 minutes while on gmail.com. You will get a "service unavailable" error. About 500 other people whose data happens to be cohosted with you will also get the same error, and all of you will be unable to send or receive email, even by IMAP, for about 10 mins while your particular corner of the data store is restarted and the data integrity checked. That doesn't hap…
I'm guessing this outage will allow GSuite customers to claim Service Credits under the SLA - does anyone have any experience with doing so? Google's documentation is lacking in detail[0]. [0] https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html
The status from Google Cloud status page offers a bit more technical details of what happened: "We are experiencing an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using node auto-provisioning becoming stuck during node version upgrades. Node auto-upgrades have been disabled temporarily." https://status.cloud.google.com/
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Hah... Press and hold the F5 key on your keyboard for 2 minutes while on gmail.com. You will get a "service unavailable" error. About 500 other people whose data happens to be cohosted with you will also get the same error, and all of you will be unable to send or receive email, even by IMAP, for about 10 mins while your particular corner of the data store is restarted and the data integrity checked. That doesn't hap…
Ok, I definitely want to know how you discovered that... (and found one of those 500 people to verify?)
Don't believe me how slow it is on a regular instance? Try going to "All mail", selecting all of your emails, and applying a label to them all. In my experience, it can only label about 50 mails per second, so it can take hours to do them all. It will keep going if you quit the browser, but will stop if the gmail devs do a software update, which they seem to do on usually tuesdays, but never fridays or the weekends.
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Ok, I definitely want to know how you discovered that... (and found one of those 500 people to verify?)
Not sure if this is still the case, but if you did this a couple of times, your account data would be permanently migrated to an instance with more CPU and RAM allocated - you'd also be in with all the other badly behaved accounts, so reliability goes down lots. The benefit was much quicker complex searches, and being able to bulk label or delete emails without it taking minutes or hours. Don't believe me how slow it…
I'm guessing this outage will allow GSuite customers to claim Service Credits under the SLA - does anyone have any experience with doing so? Google's documentation is lacking in detail[0]. [0] https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html
Good luck with that - read GSuite's terms, they, Google, define what an outage is, not the customer.
> "Downtime" means, for a domain, if there is more than a five percent user error rate. Downtime is measured based on server side error rate.
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But I'm sure similar infrastructure architecture was applied to gmail.com as it was to google.com and youtube.com. And similar concepts of maintaining by sysadmins are practiced.
Hah... Press and hold the F5 key on your keyboard for 2 minutes while on gmail.com. You will get a "service unavailable" error. About 500 other people whose data happens to be cohosted with you will also get the same error, and all of you will be unable to send or receive email, even by IMAP, for about 10 mins while your particular corner of the data store is restarted and the data integrity checked. That doesn't hap…