There is now an post for this outage on the Google Apps Status Dashboard:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1...
"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
Gmail.com was down
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
What? If keeping uptime of a server was as easy as wishful thinking, we'd see a lot more of REAL 99.9% uptime.
I think what he's trying to say is his downtime is planned - kernel upgrades, configuration changes, that sort of thing. This is both somewhat true and somewhat not true. He's still vulnerable to failure of the hosting equipment and attacks from crackers. But, when he's the only admin, there's nobody else to fat-finger the server out of action, and if he only logs into the shell for service he will never fat-finger o…
I know what he meant, but it's not like google is improvising with gmail. The site is already up by the way, it's been years since they have a more than 5 minute downtime. Also, you can never dream of having the same kind of redundancy as gmail will have nor the collective man hours spent in the project. I don't hate the idea of self hosting your mail, I just think it's ridiculous to say you'll have a better service than gmail when you have much better arguments like privacy, control and ownership.
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#213Is 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.
Just to add some data: Did not crash for me. I am using sync and I have two gmail tabs open. However gmail has continued to work for me, only the chat has had some issues.
Using dev build from canada.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wha ... how ... why would browser performance be coupled to performance of one particular site? Firefox, Opera, even IE don't crash when they're offline and unable to connect to any site.
I don't think it's Gmail, I think it's the Sync service that is causing crashes.
Probably - no problems with Chrome here, no sync enabled, no GMail tabs open (using GMail in my standalone client only)
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#215I've been on it for the past hour without a problem. It must be server/account specific.
Ditto, although both of my accounts are on "Apps". Not had Chrome crash either, although I never use Syncing because I just don't trust Google to get it right..
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#216Haven't had a single problem, using both my Apps account and my Gmail account. Stockholm/Sweden, Firefox.
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#217Is 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.
Yep Chrome crashed too during the outage for my colleagues and me.
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#218I love google products (and I'm not worried about my email for a second), but their explanation is really bad: "The problem with Google Mail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better." It sounds like something…
Today's outage: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
So far it only says "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
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#219Awesome, on my birthday...guess people were sending me too many bday emails!
thanks HN-ers!
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Won't your own server also have downtime?
it does. When I want it to, not when I don't want it to.
So you have redundant internet connections, back-up power generators, a high availability cluster, etc? That seems like a lot of money just to host your own mail server.