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Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by Aco- » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

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.

No crash here, using Chromium ver 22.0.1190.0, compiled from source. However, GMail is extremely slow. Have been able to refresh (and access) it 3 times in the past 5 minutes.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by meaty » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

lucian1900 wrote: post #80

meaty wrote: 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

Won't your own server also have downtime?

it does. When I want it to, not when I don't want it to.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by while1 » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

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.

Same for me as well.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by ruggeri » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

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.

Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser.

Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by vondur » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

I couldn't get into Google Docs either. Must be something going on.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by state_machine » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

meaty wrote: 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

fwiw, gmail's imap servers seem fine -- I'm still getting emails in sparrow.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

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.

Crashed for me, too. I thought it was just because of a flash-heavy site, but maybe not.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by cooldeal » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

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 wonder if folks with Chromebooks(and running Chrome OS, not Ubuntu) are able to use them at all now? Can anyone chime in?

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by prawks » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

Error 502 (Server Error)!!1

Is the 1 intentional?

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by rshlo » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

statictype wrote: post #52

Gmail for Business works from my imap client (postbox) but not from the web site. So I guess their web interface is down - not the backend mail engine.

IMAP works for me also with Thunderbird.