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Gmail outage
- itcrowd 10y agoCan someone enlighten me on the use case for Gmail for business? You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right? I would, as a company, never allow anyone such unfettered access. Even if it was ad-free, Google would still have access to the content of your emails. That does not sound like anything I'd ever give any company. Edit: Gmail for business doesn't show ads. But that doesn't prevent them from profiling and tracking your company activity.
- profmonocle 10y ago> You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right? The business product has no ads.
- edoceo 10y agoNo ads in Gmail for business
- niftich 10y agoIt saves you from having to host an email server yourself, which is frankly a huge pain, regardless of any guides one finds on the web. Or, if you so prefer, it saves you from running Exchange, which gives you a more complex environment for more cash. Furthermore, there are no ads in 'Google Apps for Work' or 'Google Apps for Education' [1]. [1] https://support.google.com/work/answer/6056650?hl=en https://support.google.com/work/answer/6056650?hl=en
- itcrowd 10y agoThis page is what I was looking for. Thanks
- l2dy 10y ago"Google for Work Gmail outage" is better.
- robin_reala 10y ago“Workaround: Disable Gmail Service in Admin Console UI, save the changes, enable it back, save the changes.”
- codegeek 10y agodamn it. I had to come to HN to verify as I thought we were hacked.
- codegeek 10y agoMods, can you update the title to "Google Apps for business down" as personal gmail is not down.
- Jedd 10y agoMost depressing thing about this (given I use gmail and haven't noticed any problems) : 9/15/16, 1:16 AM As someone living in Australia and mostly using a VPN I don't really know how to parse any of that. I can intuit it, but given ISO 8601, I feel that's somewhat of a cop-out.
- codegeek 10y agoFor me, it shows 11:16 AM (EST) which was right around the time it happened. So it seems to be showing based on your local time.
- logicallee 10y agoKind of weird that they mention a workaround - which involves stopping and starting the service, but obviously only works if you know about the workaround. Why not apply it to everyone themselves. (via a script) or if they don't want to force the temorary disruptuon on everyone at least like create a button to try the workaround, and put it on the outage notification page... Stopping and starting it seems like something that wouldn't be that resource-intensive to apply to everyone, would it? Isn't a hack that applies the workaround to everyone better than an outage/downtime while they figure out a purer reason?
- adamveld12 10y agoWhere was this workaround mentioned? edit: Found a tweet about it: https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/776078668212953090 https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/776078668212953090 Seems like people are having some success with it and there isn't data loss.
- ctrlrsf 10y agoSeems to be coming back up now.