Gmail is down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:27 AM UTC

Jem wrote: post #18

edgarjph wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes.This came six minutes later. But people came here because of the point and the number of comments.

I upvoted this one because gmail seemed more appropriate a link than twitter.

Good point.

Still, then the author of this one could have suggested an edit rather than to resubmit.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:28 AM UTC

Google, your new single point of failure...

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by johnyzee » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:35 AM UTC

"The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds."

Not the best error message for a failing service IMHO.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by davidw » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:37 AM UTC

jupiter wrote: post #20

Reading this drives everyone to immediately check his account further increasing the load on the servers. Maybe we should sit back, relax and remember the times when email did not yet exist.

It's not a load problem, most likely. I think Google is well equipped to deal with load spikes, and in any case, we'd see a more gradual failure. This was pretty sudden.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by apgwoz » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:39 AM UTC

Seems to be back up now.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by BvS » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:42 AM UTC

BvS wrote: post #15

c1sc0 wrote: post #2

Twitter seems to confirm that sentiment: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gmail+is+down

"336 more results since you started searching." It's amazing to see how fast it's spreading through Twitter...

Now it's "1543 more results since you started searching."

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by jupiter » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC

If gmail users don't stop complaining on twitter, we'll also see the fail whale there soon. Seems to be the dominating topic there.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by Deestan » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:47 AM UTC

johnyzee wrote: post #23

"The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. " Not the best error message for a failing service IMHO.

Just curious here; I'm a developer who has to write messages like this from time to time.

What specifically is bad about it? Do you have any suggestions to what it should be instead?

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by Steve0 » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:50 AM UTC

It's back up in Belgium.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 11:52 AM UTC

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