Gmail.com was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by kibwen » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

gprasanth wrote: post #135

Ok, I would like to take this opportunity to ask something about HN. What if, say a month later Gmail.com goes down again. Then, how do I submit another post to HN? I mean wouldn't I be redirected to this one?

To clarify what Cyranix said, it's possible to add a useless query string on the end of a URL in order to have HN fail to match a URL that's already been submitted. So say SocialMobileLocal.com goes down and someone submits a link:

  status.socialmobilelocal.com

When it goes down again a year later, you can submit:

  status.socialmobilelocal.com?foo=bar

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by avirambm » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:23 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.

Crashing on my mac as well (OS X 10.8.2, Chrome 23.0.1271.95).

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by pierooh » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

Down in France : http://www.blog-nouvelles-technologies.fr/archives/21512/err...

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by StavrosK » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

Trufa wrote: post #148

meaty wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What? If keeping uptime of a server was as easy as wishful thinking, we'd see a lot more of REAL 99.9% uptime.

The trick is to want it to be down when you notice that it's down.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by TallGuyShort » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

I've been having luck with mutt. Looks like their POP / IMAP servers are running better than their webapp.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by nsoldiac » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

Chrome just crashed on me for the first time. Gmail has been up and down a few times already the last 30 mins.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by csomar » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:24 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.

And I was wondering what was wrong. It crashed for me on 4 devices of different OSes.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by jamesjporter » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

raheemm wrote: post #162

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.

My chrome is working fine. So is gmail. I'm in Bangladesh so maybe Asia is okay.

My chrome and gmail are both fine, U.S. Midwest, so its more complicated than that.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by mun2mun » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:25 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

I think more appropriate link would be http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821928. Gmail downtime is still negligible WRT maintaining your own mail server. But the problem is the downtime of ecosystem built around it.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by MikeKusold » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:25 PM UTC

AshleysBrain wrote: post #29

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 can confirm Chrome crashed around the time of Gmail going down too.

+1. Chrome crashed once for me, and it had an interesting error message. Something along the lines of "Wahhhh!!! Chrome crashed! Would you like to restart?"