Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide • Hacker News Board

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by EGF » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:14 PM UTC

pluc wrote: post #7

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

I actually like that they give a specific time to expect the next update down to the minute

"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 4:53:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change."

This is one of those things that is extremely helpful for a sysadmin taking heat from employees looking for answers.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by iguanatom » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:15 PM UTC

datums wrote: post #9

I haven't had an issue all day, till you guys mentioned it :) Down on the east coast 4:02pm You can login here. https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&#3...

Yeah, that's down too now. 502 error

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by barredo » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:15 PM UTC

IMAP and POP3 are working fine

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by kansando » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:16 PM UTC

On the 28th day - we crash.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by joshuaxls » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:18 PM UTC

Coincidentally, their "Go Google" billboard campaign just ended today.

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by madars » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:19 PM UTC

Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3.

It's not all that bad :)

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by l0nwlf » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:19 PM UTC

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

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by modoc » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:23 PM UTC

ars wrote: post #19

Mongoose wrote: post #6

All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

But if you stored it locally you would still have downtime. Downtime (problems) are inevitable. It's just that only you would notice, so it might not get on the news. I doubt the actual uptime would be that different for any one person.

The difference is that you can know what's wrong and fix it (assuming you're able). Also, over the past 2+ years, my mail server has had less downtime than GMail, and any outages were easy for me to diagnose and fix. I like feeling in control over critical pieces of my business (at least as much as possible - I'm in no position to build my own DC for instance).

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by l0nwlf » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:25 PM UTC

ujjwalg wrote: post #16

Mongoose wrote: post #6

All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

second that. And now techcrunch down too.

http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/

Re: Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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Post by nailer » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 8:25 PM UTC

timcederman wrote: post #3

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

And credit card auth on Android Market it seems.