Gmail and Google Drive Outage

Post by klohto » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

mrkramer wrote: post #40

jordanthoms wrote: post #30

There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997

Millions of people are searching simultaneously at google.com or youtube.com but servers are not crashing. Issue is not traffic overload but something else.

Post by chippy » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

Mandatum wrote: post #2

Right at 9am pacific too. Good reason for me to wrap up in APAC. Thanks Google!

Post by jarym » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 10:03 AM UTC

jordanthoms wrote: post #30

There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997

Post by kuu » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 10:10 AM UTC

danparsonson wrote: post #46

kuu wrote: post #14

I wonder how much money this kind of outages can cost to all affected companies and institutions

Hopefully a lot less than they save by outsourcing this part of their infrastructure :-)

Post by londons_explore » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 10:15 AM UTC

mrkramer wrote: post #44

klohto wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not the same products nor infrastructure

But I'm sure similar infrastructure architecture was applied to gmail.com as it was to google.com and youtube.com. And similar concepts of maintaining by sysadmins are practiced.