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Re: Gmail.com was down

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Probably 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.

Sure, but you have 8-30 minutes of annual downtime, all planned by you:) Not too bad;)

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #28

Probably 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 doubt any self-hosted service is going to be more reliable than gmail.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#93

Is 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.

At times like these, it seems like having the ability to stick a user poll in a reply post like this would be a useful feature.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Is 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.

Try disabling account syncing in preferences. Its crashing in Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread It has not crashed for me after disabling that.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#96

Is 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.

chrome crashed...

Re: Gmail.com was down

#98

Is 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.

Yes. Chrome crashed for me too.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#99

Is 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.

I think it is, I didn't even click on the link to gmail and my chrome crashed just a seconds ago. Looks like a sync issue maybe?

yes it seems to be - I disabled syncing in prefs and it seems to have stopped crashing.

Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread

was on the crash log.

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