Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide • Hacker News Board

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

#41

Post by icey » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:45 PM UTC

dhyasama wrote: post #34

garply wrote: post #18

Wow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.

Everything goes down sometimes. I've found Gmail to be more stable than most.

Yeah, at least when gmail goes down, everyone knows about it.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

#42

Post by yan » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:47 PM UTC

harry wrote: post #37

Readmore wrote: post #10

And that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!

Actually, GV is working fine.

I think the OP meant outages in general

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

#43

Post by mkinsella » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:55 PM UTC

Interestingly, GMail has failed twice in the last few weeks since they removed it from beta. Before that, I can only remember one large-scale outage over the previous few years.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by nick007 » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

superchink wrote: post #39

nailer wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And credit card auth on Android Market it seems.

Just imagine all those lost profits...

i estimate that i'm already out $4, maybe $5 from this

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

#45

Post by nollidge » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:03 PM UTC

noodle wrote: post #38

i'd like to note that i can access gmail through the igoogle gmail widget, and just got, read and responded to a fresh email through it. can't access gmail through any other means. thought it might be useful for everyone to know and give it a shot.

Works via iGoogle for me as well, and I've received a couple e-mails from GMail users from their iPhones. So presumably it's just the web front-end that's busted.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:03 PM UTC

omouse wrote: post #15

timcederman wrote: post #3

Even Google's internal corporate mail is down. Yikes.

And Microsoft and Yahoo employees bust out the champagne :D

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Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

#47

Post by Leon » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

ccarpenterg wrote: post #35

l0nwlf wrote: post #27

http://www.google.com/ig shows me signed-in in chat-mode. Can anyone explain why so ?

GMail at iGoogle is working for me. Edit: It was working. Not anymore.

works for me

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by Readmore » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

yan wrote: post #42

harry wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, GV is working fine.

I think the OP meant outages in general

Exactly. With feigned 'outrage' at Arrington for all his Google Voice love as of late.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by Leon » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

Strange, I just did a search for movie show times in my area earlier and just now, and it seems that some cinemas are missing.

The timing lines up exactly with the gmail outage.

Since those theaters have always been listed in the movie showtime search as long as I can remember, this could be part of a larger service outage. What else is down that they aren't telling us?

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by gibsonf1 » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

barredo wrote: post #23

IMAP and POP3 are working fine

Dumb workaround: Forward mail from Iphone IMAP to yahoo account