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Gmail was down
- richforrester 14y agoGoogle announced some changes to Gmail¹, so that wasn't as big a surprise. The other services being down... I dunno. [¹]http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/introducing-new-compose-in-gmail.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/introducing-new-compose...
- philip1209 14y agoYoutube is back up
- dude_abides 14y agoShortest downtime ever? I had just gone for coffee and looks like I missed it!
- markokocic 14y agoMaybe shortest, but with largest number of people affected by it, at least according to the comments here.
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- jstalin 14y agoWorks fine for me...
- philip1209 14y agoI'm 100% back online
- ldayley 14y agoOh, Twitter: Gmail down 5:46-5:49pm ET 10/31/12 #neverforget
- hornbaker 14y agoIt's back up, and now I'm seeing the new message Compose window (yay). Sounds inconceivable, but perhaps the push required some kind of downtime?
- mattmanser 14y agoNo, I got prompted for that about 1pm GMT (9hrs ago) for all of my accounts. 'Not now'. What a bunch of crap. New 'windows' in a browser suck all kinds of ass. You'd think they'd learnt this when we all did 5 years ago.
- hornbaker 14y agoI like it. It's not a new window, it just stays on top – making it better (for me) than either 1) saving as a draft, then looking through old mail to find content for the new message, then finding the draft and completing the message, or 2) opening the new message in a "real" new window which then needs attended to. Also like the recipients' pics, which makes it harder to send to an unintended recipient.
- darshan 14y agoNo, I had the new compose window about 12 hours ago, yet I still had downtime a few minutes ago. I'm not saying the downtime wasn't somehow related to these changes, but downtime does not appear to be a necessary or intentional part of the rollout.
- kin 14y agoWhat was the downtime? Wonder if we'll get a post-mortem of what happened and how they resolved it so damn fast.
- buster 14y agoWorked fine here for the last hours, maybe not down in europe?
- oz 14y agoAh, I was wondering why Postbox complained that it couldn't login to any of my several Google Apps accounts.
- sidcool 14y agoGmail is up now.
- diN0bot 14y agoyoutube and docs/drive down, too.
- bradhe 14y agoGOOGLE is down. Like, ALL of it.
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- BryanB55 14y agoYea, its a bit scary when gmail goes down huh? Regular Gmail, google apps for your domain and youtube are down for me. Google search is not.
- colmvp 14y agoFWIW, Yahoo was down earlier today for a bit.
- patrickgzill 14y agoFor gmail, I clicked on "Detailed Technical Info" and got "Numeric code: 5" ... didn't help much :-)
- staringispolite 14y agoGoogle works for me... Gmail still down.
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- simonista 14y agocalendar as well
- laacz 14y agoEven google apps status dashboard is down (http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus). Where's status status page?
- markokocic 14y agoI just visited that status page, and all services are reported as green, as in "No Issues". Seems like their server failure detection system didn't quite detected the failures.
- laacz 14y agoWe need server failure detection system failure detection system then.
- pygorex 14y agoYouTube is down as well
- tjdetwiler 14y agohttp://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com
- FuzzyDunlop 14y ago"Show detailed technical info" Oh, okay. Maybe this will explain something. "Numeric Code: 5" ... that explains everything!
- BryanB55 14y agoha, I thought the same thing...then tried to Google it and only got results leading to google forums which are also down.
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- atourgates 14y agoGoogle apps gives a 502, along with a helpful: "502. That’s an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know."
- austinlyons 14y agogoogle fonts api was down for me... but wait... it seems to be back up. my gmail seems to be back now too
- austinlyons 14y agogoogle fonts api was down for me... but wait... it seems to be back up. my gmail seems to be back now too
- idiot900 14y agoGoogle Voice down from here (Manhattan).
- dgabriel 14y agoReader & youtube are down, too. (Reader throws a 401, http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E401.html http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E401.html)
- mykhal 14y agowhy are you accelerating the outage?
- sp332 14y agoIt probably didn't go down because of traffic.
- awwstn 14y agoDoes this mean I get to take a nap?
- awwstn 14y agoDoes this mean I get to take a nap?
- eroded 14y agoWorks for me.
- philip1209 14y agoPossibly caching? Try a hard reset (if you dare!)
- nadam 14y agoWorks for me too. (I am from Hungary, maybe this matters?)
- morsch 14y agoI had 502s on Youtube from Germany.
- thedangler 14y agoits working again.
- rabbidrabbit 14y agoup again.
- ckdarby 14y agoAgree & it was down briefly
- hkon 14y agoExam due tomorrow. Not the time to be using google docs! :(
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- rdl 14y agoSeems like anything that depends on personalization, including Apps for Domains, is down. I'm glad it fails in a way which lets google search keep working even if the login process is messed up, at least.
- Monotoko 14y agoGMail working fine for me (UK)
- jre 14y agoWorking fine here too (Swizerland). Is it only in the US ?
- sparkinson 14y agoWent down for me in the UK also.
- Trufa 14y agoWas it shorter than 5 minutes?
- sp332 14y agoJust about... Google Voice was giving me a generic 500 Internal Server Error page for a few minutes as well but it looks like it's back now.
- Trufa 14y agoThat's a reasonable time to be down IMHO.
- irunbackwards 14y agoUnexpected loss of service is reasonable? I don't think so ... unavoidable I would give you.
- Trufa 14y agoSince, it's unavoidable, whenever it happens, if it happens for less than 5 minutes it's a good thing.
- necubi 14y agoIt's working for me.
- Jaecen 14y agoGmail, Youtube, Drive, etc. are working in Oregon.
- agildehaus 14y agoOne of my app engine applications is down too.
- agildehaus 14y agoUp again. Was throwing Google-branded 502 errors for about 3-4 minutes.
- vineel 14y agoGmail and YouTube are working for me, but Google Drive is still dead.
- vineel 14y agoAnd now Drive is back up. Essays saved!
- bpd1069 14y agohttps://play.google.com https://play.google.com : Down "We're sorry, there was an error. Please try again later."
- smcguinness 14y agoBack up for me!
- coldskull 14y agoits back up
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoAaaaaand gmail/youtube are back up!
- roquin 14y agoGoogle account is down. So everything need login information does not work now.
- carlsednaoui 14y agogmail is back up!
- dysoco 14y agoFor me everything is up, even Gmail.
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- francesca 14y agoback up http://www.businessinsider.com/gmail-down-2012-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/gmail-down-2012-10
- rythie 14y ago44 comments, 73 points all in 7 minutes - hot topic!
- kgermino 14y agoI don't think I've ever seen anything explode like this did.
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- nathancahill 14y ago$ sudo service nginx restart Configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed. ... shit.
- ericcholis 14y ago$ sudo nginx -t If all is good: $ sudo nginx -s reload restart is nice, but I'd rather -t first!
- rdl 14y agoI wonder if the next thing will be an email from Google saying "if you don't want us to turn off your Google again, send us $(calculated-amount-you-will-probably-pay). That $ value is pretty high, far higher than their current revenue from me (adblocking...).
- blhack 14y agoHaha, I have been selling my boss on switching us over to google apps for around A YEAR. We've been gradually moving accounts over over the last couple of weeks, and I finally walked into his office today and asked him if I could set up his phone and stuff on the new google apps. "errr....surree, I don't know are you sure this thing works?" "YES! It's freaking google! It's awesome!" So I set up his outlook, and his phone... and as soon as he went to open "exchange" on his iPhone...gmail bites it. DAMNIT!!! "I don't know about this google, thing, blhack..."
- irunbackwards 14y agoI just switched a client over to Google Apps for Domains from a previous e-mail provider due to the downtime issues they were experiencing there. :'( Shoot me now.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThis is the exact opposite of my experience. I've started to hate google apps with a passion. The support is limited and the thing is just so opaque. The settings interface is difficult and confusing, postini is even worse. I've applied settings to stuff in postini in the past that has completely failed to take effect, such as whitelisting specific IP addresses. Give me an exchange box, or even just postfix+dovecot any day.
- blhack 14y agoWe're actually moving away from postfix+courier. I DO love the ability to just tail /var/log/maillog and immediately see just about any problem, but we've been self-hosting it, and have outgrown it to the point where its time for me to either pass the project on to somebody else, or move to something like GA.
- benvanderbeek 14y agoPostini setup process and support are a joke. You can call someone who tells you to look at a help file, and the help files point to help files, which have no screenshots, and reference menu and navigation options that don't exist. Also asking them how to get Postini to work with Google Apps was like speaking a foreign language to them, as if we were the first person to need this. Despite the fact that it was up-sold to us as an add-on to Google Apps. Other than Postini, though, I do like Google Apps.
- NeutronBoy 14y agoStatus page updated (http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus): 'We believe about 10% of Google users experienced difficulties reaching Google for six minutes this afternoon starting at approximately 2:41pm PT. We apologize to everyone affected and have worked hard to get our services back to normal as quickly as possible.'