Its up already.
Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
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Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
Actually millions were spent to make that not true. So this is definitely not supposed to happen.
> definitely not suppose to happen
Over what time range are you referring? Based on the 'millions' comment, I'm assuming you mean 'all time'. It's illogical to expect systems to perform flawlessly over a long period of time.
I'd also quantify the fact that it was only "unavailable" for a period. It's not like they lost my data.
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#33I was seeing load issues in BigQuery yesterday and the day before. I wonder if they're rolling something out on their backend infrastructure, and this is causing resource contention.
I don't know why you were downvoted. This seems entirely plausible, and it wouldn't be the first time they've done it. Moreover, it is also entirely possible Babble/Voice/Hangouts/whatever is being prepped for an I/O reveal.
People here downvote when they don't agree with you, when they're in a bad mood, when they want to hide what you've written, when they had some bad soup, etc. In some contexts one can take a little bit of pride in being downvoted. Downvoting doesn't mean much here, unfortunately.
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
Actually millions were spent to make that not true. So this is definitely not supposed to happen.
If government teaches us anything, it's that there's no correlation between money spent and reliability of the system. :/
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#35Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#36Drive Status Page: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=1f2...
This (and other) Google status pages always impress me.
Starting out with when the problem was discovered, and then followed through with regular updates until it's resolution.
A simple "Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 6/4/14 12:39 PM with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience." goes a long way, and makes me feel better about using their services as a result.
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#37Drive Status Page: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=1f2...
This (and other) Google status pages always impress me. Starting out with when the problem was discovered, and then followed through with regular updates until it's resolution. A simple "Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 6/4/14 12:39 PM with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience." goes a long way, and makes me feel better about using their servic…
Agreed; and on the other hand status pages which are way too slow to update piss me off worse than having no status page.
Xbox Live is terrible for this; the service can be down for an entire region for a few hours before they update the status page. Being absolutely sure the service is having issues (because you have the technical knowledge to diagnose that the problem is not on your side or your ISP's side, and you are seeing lots of independent reports of it on forums/subreddits) and going to a status page where everything is happily green for an hour or more after you notice the issue as a user is something I personally find to be rage inducing.
Certainly a first world problem, but if you're going to run status pages please implement policies to actually keep them current!
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#38Use the cloud they said. It will be fun they said.
Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
See, that was half of the cloud's appeal and its major selling point (the other half being "accessible from anywhere"): "no more downtime, because OMG Cloud!!!"
What you are doing is a rhetorical trick called "moving the goalposts," in other words, "the marketing buzz was a big, fat lie; so let's instead try to spin it as if that promise had never happened."
Re: Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
See, that was half of the cloud's appeal and its major selling point (the other half being "accessible from anywhere"): "no more downtime, because OMG Cloud!!!" What you are doing is a rhetorical trick called "moving the goalposts," in other words, "the marketing buzz was a big, fat lie; so let's instead try to spin it as if that promise had never happened."
No, I just think that you'd be a fool to have ever believed any promise that the cloud would eliminate downtime. Even if from a technical perspective that were true, there's still the possibility of human error.