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Given the massive scale of Gmail and the infrastructure of Google, it's highly unlikely that the entire audience of Hacker News sitting and pressing F5 every second would hurt Google's ability to bring it back up.
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#72Everything has downtime, folks. Everything.
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I don't know, if there's one thing that seems more ignorant/oblivious than the idea that HN will somehow magically DDoS GMail, it's complaining about downvotes on HN. :P
(P.S. Poe's Law)
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#74Chrome is now trending on Twitter lol
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#75pop.gmail.com is not, and that's how I get my mail.
Me too, but it's working for me here.
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#76I've just reloaded chrome twice as well as gmail and it's working fine here in Australia.
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#77Absolutely no problems with any Google services (Drive, Mail, Calendar, Search) for me (Northwest UK).
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#78Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236
I run my own mail server, but it's far from justifiable on a pure uptime basis. I don't have HA configured, so my mail (which serves <10 users on a box in colo) goes down for 2-3 minutes ~4-10 times per year when I reboot. Even worse, I don't really announce downtimes, but just randomly reboot it late at night if I've upgraded something important.
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#79Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.
Also crashed for me.
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#80Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236
Won't your own server also have downtime?