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Gmail was down

971 points by d1egoaz 13y ago

Is gmail down in your country? Colombia +1

NullXorVoid 13y ago
Can't wait to read the post-mortem about this one.
guynamedloren 13y ago
For all the startups screaming "email is dead & broken"... the top of twitter and HN might indicate otherwise. (well, except for this very minute, because it actually is broken)
johnnymonster 13y ago
It looks like google decided that we should all take a break from the internet.
senorsmile 13y ago
Google voice also appears to be down. Outbound calls showing up as carrier's phone number, and dial screen doesn't show normal "dialing with google voice."
- senorsmile 13y ago
  google voice now working for me.
sethwhite1 13y ago
also down in Madison wi at 1:18pm Friday (CST)
musildavid 13y ago
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1390604399000&sid=1&iid=8201b96db60ea3ccc26c53a4487c5492 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1390604399...
memset 13y ago
Happy that the gmail team is having this much success with their product! Don't let the haters get to you, it's inevitable to have some downtime for a product that has gotten so many users. Hoping you guys are back up soon, since our startup has really come to rely on your services. Keep up the good work!
IvyMike 13y ago
There are a million "it is down for me" but is it actually up for anyone? A few text messages to friends around the US show they are all affected. Edit: back for me in California, too.
- deleted 13y ago
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VonGuard 13y ago
Confirmed by my own email not working.... Probably limited to a small subset of users though.
- radious 13y ago
  Count me in. However, the Apps Status Dashboard shows that Gmail should be working, so probably you're right with the small subset affected.
  - shebson 13y ago
    I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.
  - dietcokke 13y ago
    The App Status Dashboard also shows that it should be working for me, however I get the server error. West Coast, US.
  - jey 13y ago
    The dashboard is probably manually updated.
- dabernathy89 13y ago
  not if Twitter has anything to say about it
theg2 13y ago
Also confirming down for me and my co-workers.
deleted 13y ago
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jorlow 13y ago
Down for us as well
ejk314 13y ago
Confirmed.
monsterix 13y ago
Dead at my end too... :-)
vhost- 13y ago
I'm not seeing any red on that status page, but the service is definitely down for me. It is a firm reminder that Google is not bullet-proof.
ia 13y ago
Mine is down also. This is actually slightly terrifying. What's standard operating procedure for recovering from a lost gmail account? And I don't mean getting the account back--I mean, your account is lost forever.
- burpee 13y ago
  Occasionally download a complete backup from https://www.google.com/settings/datatools https://www.google.com/settings/datatools to your harddrive.
- sp332 13y ago
  Your whole account or just the email part? If you have a real email client, you could rescue your email from it even if your account is toast. If just the webmail part goes down permanently, you can download your mailbox from https://www.google.com/settings/takeout https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
  - chmars 13y ago
    Creating the archive takes some time and is it working during a Gmail outage anyway? For OS X users, CloudPull (payware) is a good solution for a continuous Gmail backup. It's developed by Golden Hill Software: http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/ http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/
    - bwillard 13y ago
      No Takeout was affected by the outage as well unfortunately.
      - chmars 13y ago
        Thanks, good to know!
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago
  I still have my Gmail account hooked into Thunderbird. I don't actually use it to check my mail, but it keeps pulling it all down, so if Google's servers all catch fire, I lose nothing.
mattew 13y ago
Down for me and another user.
bvrlt 13y ago
confirmed.
juanpdelat 13y ago
Is down in Boston
jbyers 13y ago
No Google status update as of the time of the orignal post, but a quick Twitter search suggests this is a widespread problem: https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail
- GarrettBeck 13y ago
  http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com
  - jsight 13y ago
    That page appears to be down as well. I guess everyone is checking it at the same time. :)
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose; you'd think they'd add it as another monitoring source.
  - eli 13y ago
    I'm pretty sure they are aware that there's a problem
    - toomuchtodo 13y ago
      Revised statement: "I wonder if Google processes the twitter feed looking for keywords to assist in monitoring their most-used services"
      - aiiane 13y ago
        It happened at one point. Turns out it's kind of superfluous, and a fairly noisy data source.
  - cbr 13y ago
    Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose This went away in mid 2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-google-realtime-search-goes-offline-84175 http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
rinon 13y ago
Yep, same here... oops!
irunbackwards 13y ago
It's not working for me either, and there are widespread reports on Twitter of the same experience. Funny thing is, the App Status Dashboard shows green for me.
TinyTimZamboni 13y ago
dfm down for me
baq 13y ago
yup, and talk too.
staked 13y ago
It's down for my (paid) Google Apps account as well. Which is nice since it means I'll get to start the weekend even earlier than planned!
Fauntleroy 13y ago
Google Music is also having some trouble. Does this affect other services as well?
- jalude 13y ago
  Same, weirdly I can listen to radio but cannot load my playlists.
  - hobs 13y ago
    I can load some music from my playlists, but in the same playlist I am seeing it retry a song several times and then skipping it, so I think it is reasonable to assume it is affecting some servers but not others.
- psbp 13y ago
  Can confirm, G+ too for what it's worth.
sheetjs 13y ago
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Apps Status Dashboard for the current status of the service. If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center » Technical Info Numeric Code: 93
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  Interesting, my numeric code was 151. Are these codes definitively documented anywhere?
mintplant 13y ago
Top of the front page in less than a minute. What does it say about us that our first response is to rush over to HN?
- McGlockenshire 13y ago
  Took the words out of my mouth. I suppose that the logic is "hey, I wonder if it's just us... surely someone on HN will complain the instant that things go south, better check there first." Checking twitter never occurs to me...
  - iriche 13y ago
    I was more, Someone asked on IRC, I checked - it was down - then I was, It got to be on HN
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    Whenever I'm looking for real time information, the first thing I do is type search.twitter.com into chrome, hit tab to autocomplete into a search command, and search some keywords. Highly recommended! Also works if you're curious if an earthquake just occurred in your general area.
  - yogo 13y ago
    I was happy with that. The first thing I did was try from a couple different proxies then try a different gmail account and I was in wtf mode. Google's status indicator was showing everything was fine. I then checked HN and it was at the top. Their status indicator reflected the state of affairs 15 mins later.
- chmars 13y ago
  Fishing for Karma! :)
- sheetjs 13y ago
  The cynic will say "karma whoring" but I think it's actually because it increases the likelihood that something will happen. For example, when there were coinbase issues, people wouldn't get responses for weeks. However, once a post about the delays hit the front page, the founders finally responded. So no, I'm not surprised this happened and I wouldn't be surprised to see a swift response
aswani521 13y ago
down for me & my coworkers
dingdingdang 13y ago
yup down in the UK too
codecondo 13y ago
yep, it's out http://imgur.com/7dempIL http://imgur.com/7dempIL
data_app 13y ago
apps dashboard says app but gmail is down for me and my co-workers as well.
Sakes 13y ago
Their app status page says it is up, but for me it is down as well. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus
- sbuccini 13y ago
  I'm also having this problem. Odd.
- stokedmartin 13y ago
  `Last updated: January 24, 2014 2:01:15 PM UTC-5`
- xutopia 13y ago
  It is back up for me as well but saying it's now offline on the status page.
deleted 13y ago
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bederoso 13y ago
Not working for me in USA and my coworkers in Brazil, definitely widespread
codex_irl 13y ago
Say where you are located. It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay).
- tinha 13y ago
  Brazil
- geekstrada 13y ago
  Chattanooga, TN
- TinyTimZamboni 13y ago
  SF (SOMA)
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Tampa, FL suburbs.
- kibibyte 13y ago
  Down for me from Philadelphia (via university network) as well.
  - deleted 13y ago
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- craigerm 13y ago
  Currently down in Toronto, Canada
- MichaelStubbs 13y ago
  Down in the UK also.
- taylorwc 13y ago
  Kansas City MO
- agotterer 13y ago
  Down in Manhattan
lukazar 13y ago
Well, someone is having a really bad day @ google today.
washedup 13y ago
Everyone's gmail in my Chicago office is down.
sdegutis 13y ago
What are some relatively-cheap ways of hosting your own secure email server that's easy to bring back up in case of power outages or other common reasons for downtime?
senorsmile 13y ago
Confirmed
mtraven 13y ago
Some blogspot blogs are down as well.
snake_plissken 13y ago
China is probably about the dump all of their T-Bills...
jbeja 13y ago
Dead here as well.
xux 13y ago
Status says it's up, but my Google Apps email doesn't work. Good thing I've my emails backed up.
rel 13y ago
Interestingly the page says that it has no problem but I can't log into mail.Google.com or send any mail from my phone.
simonsarris 13y ago
Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue. Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us. Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.
- 3327 13y ago
  My bad I apologize to everyone. My botnet gained consciousness, went rogue, and for some reason picked Gmail as the first target to take down.
  - TrainedMonkey 13y ago
    Not leaving at least one division by zero in code that has a chance to become self aware is a rookie mistake. We are very lucky indeed that Google Self-Defensive Forces took it down with satellite strike so quickly.
- gk1 13y ago
  Well it's a selection bias. The many people who did not do something similar are not here to say so.
  - aydinghajar 13y ago
    Well, of course. But it's still amusing.
  - dude3 13y ago
    I quipped "Today must be my last day"...
    - reeses 13y ago
      I terminated a relationship with a consulting client right before the outage and thought,"How the hell did they manage that?" Then I realized I probably broke Google by dragging their folder from clients to clients/retired. Sorry about that.
bnzelener 13y ago
Started with me not being able to download an attachment about 7 minutes ago. Now down fully.
theshitlist 13y ago
Our Google Apps for Biz is down as well.. 10 minutes or so. Getting 503's from Blogger and errors from Google Plus. Any idea how many Google services are affected by this right now?
j-rom 13y ago
Wow I was just about to post this here. Front page already too.
msoad 13y ago
Google Play is not working for me either
- msoad 13y ago
  Checkout is not working http://i.imgur.com/wDL6MzX.png http://i.imgur.com/wDL6MzX.png
sinak 13y ago
Anyone have the ability to write a quick Twilio app to notify people via SMS when it goes back up? Would save us all a massive amount of time continually refreshing the page. I realize a browser extension could do this too, but SMS would be much better.
- sinak 13y ago
  Looks like Twilio rate-limits you to one SMS per second per phone number, so you'd need to buy a lot of phone lines to make this possible.
mplangley 13y ago
down in sw ohio.
- deleted 13y ago
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- sethwhite1 13y ago
  also down in Madison Wi, at 1:18pm Friday (CST)
ericcope 13y ago
the mighty beast falls... Down for me in Phoenix, AZ.
jlgaddis 13y ago
Screenshot of the error message I received just after entering my credentials: http://i.imgur.com/0my28zo.png http://i.imgur.com/0my28zo.png (I'm in the Midwest and typically hit the Chicago DC, I believe.)
avolcano 13y ago
Google Plus is down. I don't think anyone's noticed yet.
- sehr 13y ago
  Actually that's how I noticed it was down. I stay in touch with my fantasy league through Hangouts, and was about to post the new 'Bad Lip Reading' NFL version that just came out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U
- chmars 13y ago
  Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116971
- meisterbrendan 13y ago
  Not true. Google employees are finding it much harder to share pictures with each other.
- k0n2ad 13y ago
  I chuckled
- Yhippa 13y ago
  The one time I posted some pictures to share with some friends of course it's down.
cykho 13y ago
I love how their status page says they're still up. Who will watch the watchers ;p
withouted 13y ago
blogger is down as well
petsagouris 13y ago
down in Greece too
hiccup 13y ago
With Gmail down, now I get a chance to catch up on HackerNews.
nichochar 13y ago
never seen a thread get so many votes so far. Damn you google
fjcaetano 13y ago
Up in Brazil... fuckyeah!?
- kawera 13y ago
  Down for me (região da Paulista).
  - fjcaetano 13y ago
    I guess it's intermittent here (Rio). Sometimes it loads, but it's definitely slow!
vrkr 13y ago
Down in Montreal!
mprogano 13y ago
...someones getting fired
- wc- 13y ago
  Maybe the dynamics change when things get to gmail's scale and customer base, but if this was the result of a single action wouldn't the person responsible have learned one of those "I'll absolutely never do that again" lessons? Also I'd consider it a failure of the system if one person's action could create a result like this with no oversight. Maybe the manager in charge of that would be under more heat? Then again, maybe everything I said goes out the window when things are at this magnitude.
sillysaurus2 13y ago
Why is there no alternative webmail of the caliber of gmail? Is it a difficult problem? If there were such an alternative, all they would need to do is wait until gmail fouls up, as they did here. Then they'd have a flood of new users. I can imagine a few reasons why there currently isn't an alternative, like network effects stemming from your contact list, or the fact that you'd have to change your email address everywhere and forward from your gmail account. But what are the real reasons?
- vex 13y ago
  A better question is, why isn't there an open source webmail service like gmail that can be run on a server you control? My lab uses Gmail for business, and the outage took us down too. I just want to be able to run an email server that has conversation features, contacts, XMPP chat, etc, but isn't Microsoft Exchange
  - chmars 13y ago
    You could use Kolab: http://kolab.org/ http://kolab.org/
  - thrush 13y ago
    I think an even better question may be, why isn't there a decentralized approach to email to compete with centralized alternatives like Gmail. Imagine that you could still use your email when Gmail goes down, but you would lose a lot of features like autocomplete, search, recommended recipients, etc.
    - dredmorbius 13y ago
      IMAP
  - benjohnson 13y ago
    There's plenty - we chose Roundcube. http://roundcube.net http://roundcube.net
  - abvdasker 13y ago
cunninghamd 13y ago
down for me too, in Ontario, Canada.
smoyer 13y ago
I was in the midst of trying to upload files to Google Drive ... I guess I'll use DropBox for this one (I love having choices!).
- brent_noorda 13y ago
  You're to blame. Please don't be uploading files while the rest of us are emailing.
  - smoyer 13y ago
    Yeah ... it's always my fault! The percent-complete gauge on my upload went up to 20%, then back to 0% ... maybe I'm just backwards?
lewsid 13y ago
Down in VT.
ChuckMcM 13y ago
lol its everywhere! Both GAFYD and gmail.com are down here in N. California. Anyone have real time satellite imagery of The Dalles in Oregon? :-)
atrniv 13y ago
down in india
sp332 13y ago
I'm also getting 503's from http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
chmars 13y ago
My OS X Mail.app got stuck since it cannot access Gmail at the moment. OK, using Mail.app with Gmail isn't the best idea as we probably all know … ;)
btmills 13y ago
Connecting with POP3 over telnet and authenticating gives the following message: +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty.
lotux 13y ago
down in montreal
ngonzal 13y ago
Hopefully they get it fixed soon! But I wouldn't mind if Plus never came back..
thrush 13y ago
down for me. NY, NY
- thrush 13y ago
  it's back!
JGM564 13y ago
If it's actually a widespread outage, is this a configuration problem for some anti-snooping changes that Google is making? I don't think they've ever had a worldwide outage like this.
html5web 13y ago
Down for me in NYC
nostromo 13y ago
YouTube comments and Google+ as well.
- frik 13y ago
  Same for me. YouTube already acted weird for the last few hours.
sudeep1 13y ago
down in Nepal here
FR6 13y ago
The free public beta is now over. ;)
lewsid 13y ago
This thread has now become the most reliable way to send a message to my coworkers. Andrew, please push those changes to production, kthx.
mudil 13y ago
Forget about Gmail. The Mavericks Invitational is on. Watch it live now: http://live.redbull.tv/events/374/mavericks-invitational-2014/ http://live.redbull.tv/events/374/mavericks-invitational-201...
dsilver 13y ago
Of all things, this happens as Google's Site Reliability Engineering team starts an AMA on Reddit[1]. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_google_site_reliability_engineering/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_goog...
- babuskov 13y ago
  Apparently, not the team responsible for GMail.
ChristianMarks 13y ago
Same here. The GMail status page seems at variance with the actual status. Manhattan, New York. Verizon DSL.
trillium 13y ago
I remember the last time something like this happened - 4 years ago it was down for almost a day. Impressive that it's almost always up without serious flaws (for me at least)!
benburleson 13y ago
Gmail for your domain (Google Apps for domains, or whatever it's called) is down as well.
dec0dedab0de 13y ago
looks good now
pgrote 13y ago
It is back for me in Missouri, USA.
paulrd 13y ago
It's back up for me.
geovizer 13y ago
...and it's back!
bnzelener 13y ago
Back up.
stokedmartin 13y ago
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com - more accurate than google app status
pkfrank 13y ago
This actually raises a slightly terrifying reality. How much would someone have to pay you to never again recover your gMail account? I would demand just an absurd payout to willingly walk away right now, with all those contacts, messages, unread e-mails, organization, etc... Scary how much faith we put in this free service.
- coolsunglasses 13y ago
  I could drop it without too much pain, honestly. It wouldn't cost that much for me to delete my gmail accounts. But I learned to own my data where it matters and not sweat the rest ages ago. (Stopped compulsively "hoarding")
  - sebastianavina 13y ago
    the problem resides on big companies. I use google apps for email, and it's almost impossible to backup all the mails..
    - wutbrodo 13y ago
      http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/google-announces-data-export-feature-for-gmail-google-calendar-data/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/google... is adequate for me. What's so devastatingly wrong about that feature that makes it "almost impossible" to use?
    - mburns 13y ago
      Does IMAP not work for you?
- prawks 13y ago
  Thanks for reminding me to backup!
- deleted 13y ago
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- chmars 13y ago
rattray 13y ago
Very happy at times like these that I use the gmail offline webapp. I wrote a blog post about it a while ago, which I took down (deleted the blog) but still have the gdoc if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E0ApnDQyV0zRX6jhisBxHHuZdELwBvyGBV-23_g124Q/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E0ApnDQyV0zRX6jhisBxHHuZ...
baq 13y ago
guys guys it's up again
tangoalpha 13y ago
The app status @ http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1390591237525 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=139059123... just started showing Service Disruption for Gmail
ozi 13y ago
Annnnd it's back up!
esMazer 13y ago
it's been fine for me
arcdigital 13y ago
I wasn't able to access gmail (same error 500/93), so I just closed all my tabs and went on HN for 15 mins. I then tried getting on again, and it seems to be working for me.
ratsimihah 13y ago
Someone updates this title. Gmail is up again.
vrp101 13y ago
400 points in 15 min (can we get updates on how the votes are changing over time? it would be fun to go through those)
deleted 13y ago
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stokedmartin 13y ago
It's back!
clarky07 13y ago
I'm not well equipped to handle life without gmail.
stan_rogers 13y ago
Not anymore, it isn't. As global outages go, that was quick.
yashness 13y ago
Its up !
momchenr 13y ago
And it's back.
washedup 13y ago
GMAIL WORKS
TallGuyShort 13y ago
I've been having intermittent problems with the GMail-integrated Talk / Hangouts client all day as well.
intsunny 13y ago
Google voice appears to be down as well.
ericdc 13y ago
And this dear children is why gmail should be written in Erlang.
pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
not just gmail... g+, google app engine, cloud console, cloud storage, cloud sql, everything... GOOGLE is down.
ams6110 13y ago
Seems to be affecting google docs and sites as well. My site loads but some of the image assets do not.
sudeep1 13y ago
now up
vrp101 13y ago
its back up in gandhinagar, india
AznHisoka 13y ago
if gmail charged $200/month, I'd tell Google to shaddup and take my money. That's how important it is to me. Hell, I'd pay $200/month for their search engine as well. Would I pay $5/month for your SaaS? Most likely no!
kohanz 13y ago
And it's back! 2:24pm EST here in Ontario, Canada.
lhgaghl 13y ago
Confirmed.
- lhgaghl 13y ago
  What? I didn't write this. And gmail is up for me. HN is making users post false claims.
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Cymen 13y ago
Back up for me in Chicago however I can't actually send an email: Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#793)
- deleted 13y ago
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jsh7 13y ago
Yahoo seems to be enjoying this news: https://twitter.com/Yahoo/status/426795724542455808 https://twitter.com/Yahoo/status/426795724542455808
bevenky 13y ago
Back now in San Francisco!
aabalkan 13y ago
Google Plus is a big whitespace https://plus.google.com/ https://plus.google.com/
cornellwright 13y ago
Per their SLA (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html) if it's out for more than 45 minutes (0.1% of January) biz users get 3 free days. Yay?
codex_irl 13y ago
It's back for me - bay area.
TallGuyShort 13y ago
User d1egoaz just hit the Karma Lottery. First and only submission: 435 points in 18 minutes.
- d1egoaz 13y ago
  That's true :) but I have to say that I follow HN all day (read only mode) until today.
pinaceae 13y ago
http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus had gmail green for a long time, right now half orange. clearly not fully dynamic.
- dec0dedab0de 13y ago
  I think they have to manually change it
chmars 13y ago
My Gmail is back … :)
rsingla 13y ago
Back for me.
larubbio 13y ago
A friend pinged me over IM to ask if it was down. I hadn't noticed since I've been using the Gmail Offline chrome app. (Which I really wish they'd merge with the main gmail app)
nikbackm 13y ago
Up and running in Europe.
w1ntermute 13y ago
Weird, I seem to be one of the few without any problems. Edit: Gmail up, Hangouts down.
nsns 13y ago
I wonder if Google can be DDOSed; isn't it always?
taigeair 13y ago
that was fast
mvgoogler 13y ago
Both of my accounts just came back up for me. Note - I have no inside knowledge of what's happening. I'm just posting my observations.
adamgravitis 13y ago
Urgh. If only there were a simple protocol to transport mail between distributed systems so the world didn't grind to a halt when the central router died.
debt 13y ago
I'm surprised the status board isn't nearly instant when this type of thing happens. I wonder if it's a manually switch or if it's automatically triggered after a certain number of regions become unavailable.
adventureartist 13y ago
aaaaand we're back
igvadaimon 13y ago
The most tragic part is that I was doing a difficult 2hour test for a company I really want to work at (frontend developer position). And right now I can't send an email with the completed task.
mikegreen 13y ago
Back up, but is anyone else's unread email count fluctuating? I have about 160 (constant #... sad.. I know), but with every third or fifth page refresh it is changing - 191, 160, 380.
anilshanbhag 13y ago
Fastest rise of points seen in the past one year ! On another note, for one moment I got scared as shit - if my data gets erased, I'm done !
joeevans 13y ago
back, but not sending.
vermontdevil 13y ago
It's been up and down for me.
senorsmile 13y ago
Was back for a minute, back down again.
- RRRA 13y ago
  Same here, it seems it just came back up for a 2nd time ...
  - RRRA 13y ago
    Scratch that, very intermittent up/down. . . mostly down!
charleswalter 13y ago
so what? i dont use gmail
acdanger 13y ago
And it's back.
MaysonL 13y ago
Just came back for me
vezzy-fnord 13y ago
And I thought the reaction to Michael Jackson's death was huge... This will probably go down in history as quite a record. I'll wait for the post-downtime analytics.
frik 13y ago
The Google AppsStatus dashboard looks broken at least in Chrome 32 and IE 11. The status indicators orbs are either missing and misaligned. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus
mwenge 13y ago
Still down in Ireland.
georgecmu 13y ago
I should note that only Google Apps Gmail seems to be affected. My non-Google-Apps account is working just fine.
obliojoe 13y ago
It is up for me now, except that I am unable to add any attachments to emails.
jonli1 13y ago
up but flaky...
coreymgilmore 13y ago
backup but slow...changes are most likely still propagating out
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tomrod 13y ago
http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus Thought it was just me. Glad to know I'm not alone.
mickt 13y ago
^R
curiouscat321 13y ago
I'm back. Google Apps using SSO server. Anybody else?
bsgreenb 13y ago
I just realized how you could generate thousands of points of Hacker News karma without ever manually writing a post or comment: Watch all major status pages (e.g. Google, Facebook, Heroku, etc.) and immediately auto-post the link to that page when anything goes down.
elwell 13y ago
Back up for me.
cl8ton 13y ago
Funny to see all the GMail posts: Is GMail down?^2 GMail is down^4 Gmail is still down^10 gmail is back up^2 Gmail was down
tomrod 13y ago
Now all services are down. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus
wbhart 13y ago
Most Google services except Gmail seem to be having issues at present. My experience was that I was corresponding with someone about a tech support query for an application they run on Google Compute Engine. Just as he asked me to hit some developer swizzlesticks in my Google Chrome, the problems started. First Google Chrome crashed on my PC, then Google chat went, then Gmail, G+ and eventually everything. A few minutes later their Apps Status Dashboard showed an outage. From now on I shall refer to that particular swizzlestick as the Kill Google swizzlestick, and shall laugh maniacally when pressing it.
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chunky1994 13y ago
Google's stock just took a 3% dip (~$36), since 10 AM (close to gmail downtime). https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG
- wutbrodo 13y ago
  Woww, I don't think I've ever seen a more specious stock-price correlation haha, that's impressive. FB is down almost 4%, AAPL is down almost 2%, TSLA is down almost 4%, AMZN is down almost 3%, the whole S&P 500 is down ~2%. I'm pretty sure the market doesn't think that an Apps outage threatens all those companies (and the whole S&P 500) to the point that they'd shave whole points off all of their market values.
techaddict009 13y ago
Search for Gmail in google and click on "email" which is sub link of gmail. See the magic. Jeff Morsey is doomed with emails !
Pro_bity 13y ago
It's like a snow day.
ashishb4u 13y ago
I see jeff.morse@d214.org
dragos2 13y ago
Does anyone know if a potential incoming email would be lost when Gmail is down?
macinjosh 13y ago
Reason #33 I host my own email.
ChristianMarks 13y ago
I wager 25 cents that no explanation is forthcoming fro Google.
Tossrock 13y ago
http://www.theonion.com/video/google-shuts-down-gmail-for-two-hours-to-show-its,27610/ http://www.theonion.com/video/google-shuts-down-gmail-for-tw...
- gcb0 13y ago
  would be much funnier if they published an announcement from google sunseting gmail, like reader.
jebblue 13y ago
Glad Google is keeping people informed, also glad to see I'm not the only one developing GWT apps.
lukka5 13y ago
Something explode at Google
zobzu 13y ago
meanwhile, my self hosted mail hasn't failed yet for 15 years. but i heard self hosted mail is hard! (just had to)
dshankar 13y ago
Google has published an outage report: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-several-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-sev...
- d1egoaz 13y ago
  It's strange that Google did not make validation/testing to configuration files in isolated servers, before publish them to production servers.
stormqloud 13y ago
Their uptime is excellent. It's taken google hpw many years to read bell level reliability?
brianmcdonough 13y ago
I know a lot of people use gmail, but I never understood why...
vladtaltos 13y ago
Am I the only one who finds this google status page a bit difficult to interpret?
spoiler 13y ago
I don't understand how throughout the whole time Gmail was down, it worked for a coworker and me the whole time, but it didn't work for anyone else. We enemy exchanged half a dozen emails to test it! Could it be that the Web app was down, but the actual mail servers weren't? I know I have the Gmail extension in Chrome Installed (not sure about my coworker), could this be the reason?

Gmail was down

971 points by d1egoaz 13y ago

Is gmail down in your country? Colombia +1

NullXorVoid 13y ago

Can't wait to read the post-mortem about this one.

guynamedloren 13y ago

For all the startups screaming "email is dead & broken"... the top of twitter and HN might indicate otherwise. (well, except for this very minute, because it actually is broken)

johnnymonster 13y ago

It looks like google decided that we should all take a break from the internet.

senorsmile 13y ago

Google voice also appears to be down. Outbound calls showing up as carrier's phone number, and dial screen doesn't show normal "dialing with google voice."

senorsmile 13y ago
google voice now working for me.

sethwhite1 13y ago

also down in Madison wi at 1:18pm Friday (CST)

musildavid 13y ago

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1390604399000&sid=1&iid=8201b96db60ea3ccc26c53a4487c5492 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1390604399...

memset 13y ago

Happy that the gmail team is having this much success with their product! Don't let the haters get to you, it's inevitable to have some downtime for a product that has gotten so many users. Hoping you guys are back up soon, since our startup has really come to rely on your services. Keep up the good work!

IvyMike 13y ago

There are a million "it is down for me" but is it actually up for anyone? A few text messages to friends around the US show they are all affected. Edit: back for me in California, too.

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VonGuard 13y ago

Confirmed by my own email not working.... Probably limited to a small subset of users though.

radious 13y ago
Count me in. However, the Apps Status Dashboard shows that Gmail should be working, so probably you're right with the small subset affected.
- shebson 13y ago
  I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.
- dietcokke 13y ago
  The App Status Dashboard also shows that it should be working for me, however I get the server error. West Coast, US.
- jey 13y ago
  The dashboard is probably manually updated.
dabernathy89 13y ago
not if Twitter has anything to say about it

theg2 13y ago

Also confirming down for me and my co-workers.

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jorlow 13y ago

Down for us as well

ejk314 13y ago

Confirmed.

monsterix 13y ago

Dead at my end too... :-)

vhost- 13y ago

I'm not seeing any red on that status page, but the service is definitely down for me. It is a firm reminder that Google is not bullet-proof.

ia 13y ago

Mine is down also. This is actually slightly terrifying. What's standard operating procedure for recovering from a lost gmail account? And I don't mean getting the account back--I mean, your account is lost forever.

burpee 13y ago
Occasionally download a complete backup from https://www.google.com/settings/datatools https://www.google.com/settings/datatools to your harddrive.
sp332 13y ago
Your whole account or just the email part? If you have a real email client, you could rescue your email from it even if your account is toast. If just the webmail part goes down permanently, you can download your mailbox from https://www.google.com/settings/takeout https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
- chmars 13y ago
  Creating the archive takes some time and is it working during a Gmail outage anyway? For OS X users, CloudPull (payware) is a good solution for a continuous Gmail backup. It's developed by Golden Hill Software: http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/ http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/
  - bwillard 13y ago
    No Takeout was affected by the outage as well unfortunately.
    - chmars 13y ago
      Thanks, good to know!
PhasmaFelis 13y ago
I still have my Gmail account hooked into Thunderbird. I don't actually use it to check my mail, but it keeps pulling it all down, so if Google's servers all catch fire, I lose nothing.

mattew 13y ago

Down for me and another user.

bvrlt 13y ago

confirmed.

juanpdelat 13y ago

Is down in Boston

jbyers 13y ago

No Google status update as of the time of the orignal post, but a quick Twitter search suggests this is a widespread problem: https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail

GarrettBeck 13y ago
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com
- jsight 13y ago
  That page appears to be down as well. I guess everyone is checking it at the same time. :)
toomuchtodo 13y ago
Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose; you'd think they'd add it as another monitoring source.
- eli 13y ago
  I'm pretty sure they are aware that there's a problem
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    Revised statement: "I wonder if Google processes the twitter feed looking for keywords to assist in monitoring their most-used services"
    - aiiane 13y ago
      It happened at one point. Turns out it's kind of superfluous, and a fairly noisy data source.
- cbr 13y ago
  Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose This went away in mid 2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-google-realtime-search-goes-offline-84175 http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...

rinon 13y ago

Yep, same here... oops!

irunbackwards 13y ago

It's not working for me either, and there are widespread reports on Twitter of the same experience. Funny thing is, the App Status Dashboard shows green for me.

TinyTimZamboni 13y ago

dfm down for me

baq 13y ago

yup, and talk too.

staked 13y ago

It's down for my (paid) Google Apps account as well. Which is nice since it means I'll get to start the weekend even earlier than planned!

Fauntleroy 13y ago

Google Music is also having some trouble. Does this affect other services as well?

jalude 13y ago
Same, weirdly I can listen to radio but cannot load my playlists.
- hobs 13y ago
  I can load some music from my playlists, but in the same playlist I am seeing it retry a song several times and then skipping it, so I think it is reasonable to assume it is affecting some servers but not others.
psbp 13y ago
Can confirm, G+ too for what it's worth.

sheetjs 13y ago

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Apps Status Dashboard for the current status of the service. If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center » Technical Info Numeric Code: 93

georgemcbay 13y ago
Interesting, my numeric code was 151. Are these codes definitively documented anywhere?

mintplant 13y ago

Top of the front page in less than a minute. What does it say about us that our first response is to rush over to HN?

McGlockenshire 13y ago
Took the words out of my mouth. I suppose that the logic is "hey, I wonder if it's just us... surely someone on HN will complain the instant that things go south, better check there first." Checking twitter never occurs to me...
- iriche 13y ago
  I was more, Someone asked on IRC, I checked - it was down - then I was, It got to be on HN
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Whenever I'm looking for real time information, the first thing I do is type search.twitter.com into chrome, hit tab to autocomplete into a search command, and search some keywords. Highly recommended! Also works if you're curious if an earthquake just occurred in your general area.
- yogo 13y ago
  I was happy with that. The first thing I did was try from a couple different proxies then try a different gmail account and I was in wtf mode. Google's status indicator was showing everything was fine. I then checked HN and it was at the top. Their status indicator reflected the state of affairs 15 mins later.
chmars 13y ago
Fishing for Karma! :)
sheetjs 13y ago
The cynic will say "karma whoring" but I think it's actually because it increases the likelihood that something will happen. For example, when there were coinbase issues, people wouldn't get responses for weeks. However, once a post about the delays hit the front page, the founders finally responded. So no, I'm not surprised this happened and I wouldn't be surprised to see a swift response

aswani521 13y ago

down for me & my coworkers

dingdingdang 13y ago

yup down in the UK too

codecondo 13y ago

yep, it's out http://imgur.com/7dempIL http://imgur.com/7dempIL

data_app 13y ago

apps dashboard says app but gmail is down for me and my co-workers as well.

Sakes 13y ago

Their app status page says it is up, but for me it is down as well. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus

sbuccini 13y ago
I'm also having this problem. Odd.
stokedmartin 13y ago
`Last updated: January 24, 2014 2:01:15 PM UTC-5`
xutopia 13y ago
It is back up for me as well but saying it's now offline on the status page.

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bederoso 13y ago

Not working for me in USA and my coworkers in Brazil, definitely widespread

codex_irl 13y ago

Say where you are located. It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay).

tinha 13y ago
Brazil
geekstrada 13y ago
Chattanooga, TN
TinyTimZamboni 13y ago
SF (SOMA)
toomuchtodo 13y ago
Tampa, FL suburbs.
kibibyte 13y ago
Down for me from Philadelphia (via university network) as well.
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craigerm 13y ago
Currently down in Toronto, Canada
MichaelStubbs 13y ago
Down in the UK also.
taylorwc 13y ago
Kansas City MO
agotterer 13y ago
Down in Manhattan

lukazar 13y ago

Well, someone is having a really bad day @ google today.

washedup 13y ago

Everyone's gmail in my Chicago office is down.

sdegutis 13y ago

What are some relatively-cheap ways of hosting your own secure email server that's easy to bring back up in case of power outages or other common reasons for downtime?

senorsmile 13y ago

Confirmed

mtraven 13y ago

Some blogspot blogs are down as well.

snake_plissken 13y ago

China is probably about the dump all of their T-Bills...

jbeja 13y ago

Dead here as well.

xux 13y ago

Status says it's up, but my Google Apps email doesn't work. Good thing I've my emails backed up.

rel 13y ago

Interestingly the page says that it has no problem but I can't log into mail.Google.com or send any mail from my phone.

simonsarris 13y ago

Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue. Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us. Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.

3327 13y ago
My bad I apologize to everyone. My botnet gained consciousness, went rogue, and for some reason picked Gmail as the first target to take down.
- TrainedMonkey 13y ago
  Not leaving at least one division by zero in code that has a chance to become self aware is a rookie mistake. We are very lucky indeed that Google Self-Defensive Forces took it down with satellite strike so quickly.
gk1 13y ago
Well it's a selection bias. The many people who did not do something similar are not here to say so.
- aydinghajar 13y ago
  Well, of course. But it's still amusing.
- dude3 13y ago
  I quipped "Today must be my last day"...
  - reeses 13y ago
    I terminated a relationship with a consulting client right before the outage and thought,"How the hell did they manage that?" Then I realized I probably broke Google by dragging their folder from clients to clients/retired. Sorry about that.

bnzelener 13y ago

Started with me not being able to download an attachment about 7 minutes ago. Now down fully.

theshitlist 13y ago

Our Google Apps for Biz is down as well.. 10 minutes or so. Getting 503's from Blogger and errors from Google Plus. Any idea how many Google services are affected by this right now?

j-rom 13y ago

Wow I was just about to post this here. Front page already too.

msoad 13y ago

Google Play is not working for me either

msoad 13y ago
Checkout is not working http://i.imgur.com/wDL6MzX.png http://i.imgur.com/wDL6MzX.png

sinak 13y ago

Anyone have the ability to write a quick Twilio app to notify people via SMS when it goes back up? Would save us all a massive amount of time continually refreshing the page. I realize a browser extension could do this too, but SMS would be much better.

sinak 13y ago
Looks like Twilio rate-limits you to one SMS per second per phone number, so you'd need to buy a lot of phone lines to make this possible.

mplangley 13y ago

down in sw ohio.

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sethwhite1 13y ago
also down in Madison Wi, at 1:18pm Friday (CST)

ericcope 13y ago

the mighty beast falls... Down for me in Phoenix, AZ.

jlgaddis 13y ago

Screenshot of the error message I received just after entering my credentials: http://i.imgur.com/0my28zo.png http://i.imgur.com/0my28zo.png (I'm in the Midwest and typically hit the Chicago DC, I believe.)

avolcano 13y ago

Google Plus is down. I don't think anyone's noticed yet.

sehr 13y ago
Actually that's how I noticed it was down. I stay in touch with my fantasy league through Hangouts, and was about to post the new 'Bad Lip Reading' NFL version that just came out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U
chmars 13y ago
Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116971
meisterbrendan 13y ago
Not true. Google employees are finding it much harder to share pictures with each other.
k0n2ad 13y ago
I chuckled
Yhippa 13y ago
The one time I posted some pictures to share with some friends of course it's down.

cykho 13y ago

I love how their status page says they're still up. Who will watch the watchers ;p

withouted 13y ago

blogger is down as well

petsagouris 13y ago

down in Greece too

hiccup 13y ago

With Gmail down, now I get a chance to catch up on HackerNews.

nichochar 13y ago

never seen a thread get so many votes so far. Damn you google

fjcaetano 13y ago

Up in Brazil... fuckyeah!?

kawera 13y ago
Down for me (região da Paulista).
- fjcaetano 13y ago
  I guess it's intermittent here (Rio). Sometimes it loads, but it's definitely slow!

vrkr 13y ago

Down in Montreal!

mprogano 13y ago

...someones getting fired

wc- 13y ago
Maybe the dynamics change when things get to gmail's scale and customer base, but if this was the result of a single action wouldn't the person responsible have learned one of those "I'll absolutely never do that again" lessons? Also I'd consider it a failure of the system if one person's action could create a result like this with no oversight. Maybe the manager in charge of that would be under more heat? Then again, maybe everything I said goes out the window when things are at this magnitude.

sillysaurus2 13y ago

Why is there no alternative webmail of the caliber of gmail? Is it a difficult problem? If there were such an alternative, all they would need to do is wait until gmail fouls up, as they did here. Then they'd have a flood of new users. I can imagine a few reasons why there currently isn't an alternative, like network effects stemming from your contact list, or the fact that you'd have to change your email address everywhere and forward from your gmail account. But what are the real reasons?

vex 13y ago
A better question is, why isn't there an open source webmail service like gmail that can be run on a server you control? My lab uses Gmail for business, and the outage took us down too. I just want to be able to run an email server that has conversation features, contacts, XMPP chat, etc, but isn't Microsoft Exchange
- chmars 13y ago
  You could use Kolab: http://kolab.org/ http://kolab.org/
- thrush 13y ago
  I think an even better question may be, why isn't there a decentralized approach to email to compete with centralized alternatives like Gmail. Imagine that you could still use your email when Gmail goes down, but you would lose a lot of features like autocomplete, search, recommended recipients, etc.
  - dredmorbius 13y ago
    IMAP
- benjohnson 13y ago
  There's plenty - we chose Roundcube. http://roundcube.net http://roundcube.net
- abvdasker 13y ago

cunninghamd 13y ago

down for me too, in Ontario, Canada.

smoyer 13y ago

I was in the midst of trying to upload files to Google Drive ... I guess I'll use DropBox for this one (I love having choices!).

brent_noorda 13y ago
You're to blame. Please don't be uploading files while the rest of us are emailing.
- smoyer 13y ago
  Yeah ... it's always my fault! The percent-complete gauge on my upload went up to 20%, then back to 0% ... maybe I'm just backwards?

lewsid 13y ago

Down in VT.

ChuckMcM 13y ago

lol its everywhere! Both GAFYD and gmail.com are down here in N. California. Anyone have real time satellite imagery of The Dalles in Oregon? :-)

atrniv 13y ago

down in india

sp332 13y ago

I'm also getting 503's from http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

chmars 13y ago

My OS X Mail.app got stuck since it cannot access Gmail at the moment. OK, using Mail.app with Gmail isn't the best idea as we probably all know … ;)

btmills 13y ago

Connecting with POP3 over telnet and authenticating gives the following message: +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty.

lotux 13y ago

down in montreal

ngonzal 13y ago

Hopefully they get it fixed soon! But I wouldn't mind if Plus never came back..

thrush 13y ago

down for me. NY, NY

thrush 13y ago
it's back!

JGM564 13y ago

If it's actually a widespread outage, is this a configuration problem for some anti-snooping changes that Google is making? I don't think they've ever had a worldwide outage like this.

html5web 13y ago

Down for me in NYC

nostromo 13y ago

YouTube comments and Google+ as well.

frik 13y ago
Same for me. YouTube already acted weird for the last few hours.

sudeep1 13y ago

down in Nepal here

FR6 13y ago

The free public beta is now over. ;)

lewsid 13y ago

This thread has now become the most reliable way to send a message to my coworkers. Andrew, please push those changes to production, kthx.

mudil 13y ago

Forget about Gmail. The Mavericks Invitational is on. Watch it live now: http://live.redbull.tv/events/374/mavericks-invitational-2014/ http://live.redbull.tv/events/374/mavericks-invitational-201...

dsilver 13y ago

Of all things, this happens as Google's Site Reliability Engineering team starts an AMA on Reddit[1]. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_google_site_reliability_engineering/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_goog...

babuskov 13y ago
Apparently, not the team responsible for GMail.

ChristianMarks 13y ago

Same here. The GMail status page seems at variance with the actual status. Manhattan, New York. Verizon DSL.

trillium 13y ago

I remember the last time something like this happened - 4 years ago it was down for almost a day. Impressive that it's almost always up without serious flaws (for me at least)!

benburleson 13y ago

Gmail for your domain (Google Apps for domains, or whatever it's called) is down as well.

dec0dedab0de 13y ago

looks good now

pgrote 13y ago

It is back for me in Missouri, USA.

paulrd 13y ago

It's back up for me.

geovizer 13y ago

...and it's back!

bnzelener 13y ago

Back up.

stokedmartin 13y ago

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com - more accurate than google app status

pkfrank 13y ago

This actually raises a slightly terrifying reality. How much would someone have to pay you to never again recover your gMail account? I would demand just an absurd payout to willingly walk away right now, with all those contacts, messages, unread e-mails, organization, etc... Scary how much faith we put in this free service.

coolsunglasses 13y ago
I could drop it without too much pain, honestly. It wouldn't cost that much for me to delete my gmail accounts. But I learned to own my data where it matters and not sweat the rest ages ago. (Stopped compulsively "hoarding")
- sebastianavina 13y ago
  the problem resides on big companies. I use google apps for email, and it's almost impossible to backup all the mails..
  - wutbrodo 13y ago
    http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/google-announces-data-export-feature-for-gmail-google-calendar-data/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/google... is adequate for me. What's so devastatingly wrong about that feature that makes it "almost impossible" to use?
  - mburns 13y ago
    Does IMAP not work for you?
prawks 13y ago
Thanks for reminding me to backup!
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rattray 13y ago

Very happy at times like these that I use the gmail offline webapp. I wrote a blog post about it a while ago, which I took down (deleted the blog) but still have the gdoc if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E0ApnDQyV0zRX6jhisBxHHuZdELwBvyGBV-23_g124Q/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E0ApnDQyV0zRX6jhisBxHHuZ...

baq 13y ago

guys guys it's up again

tangoalpha 13y ago

The app status @ http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1390591237525 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=139059123... just started showing Service Disruption for Gmail

ozi 13y ago

Annnnd it's back up!

esMazer 13y ago

it's been fine for me

arcdigital 13y ago

I wasn't able to access gmail (same error 500/93), so I just closed all my tabs and went on HN for 15 mins. I then tried getting on again, and it seems to be working for me.

ratsimihah 13y ago

Someone updates this title. Gmail is up again.

vrp101 13y ago

400 points in 15 min (can we get updates on how the votes are changing over time? it would be fun to go through those)

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stokedmartin 13y ago

It's back!

clarky07 13y ago

I'm not well equipped to handle life without gmail.

stan_rogers 13y ago

Not anymore, it isn't. As global outages go, that was quick.

yashness 13y ago

Its up !

momchenr 13y ago

And it's back.

washedup 13y ago

GMAIL WORKS

TallGuyShort 13y ago

I've been having intermittent problems with the GMail-integrated Talk / Hangouts client all day as well.

intsunny 13y ago

Google voice appears to be down as well.

ericdc 13y ago

And this dear children is why gmail should be written in Erlang.

pg_is_a_butt 13y ago

not just gmail... g+, google app engine, cloud console, cloud storage, cloud sql, everything... GOOGLE is down.

ams6110 13y ago

Seems to be affecting google docs and sites as well. My site loads but some of the image assets do not.

sudeep1 13y ago

now up

vrp101 13y ago

its back up in gandhinagar, india

AznHisoka 13y ago

if gmail charged $200/month, I'd tell Google to shaddup and take my money. That's how important it is to me. Hell, I'd pay $200/month for their search engine as well. Would I pay $5/month for your SaaS? Most likely no!

kohanz 13y ago

And it's back! 2:24pm EST here in Ontario, Canada.

lhgaghl 13y ago

Confirmed.

lhgaghl 13y ago
What? I didn't write this. And gmail is up for me. HN is making users post false claims.

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Cymen 13y ago

Back up for me in Chicago however I can't actually send an email: Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#793)

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jsh7 13y ago

Yahoo seems to be enjoying this news: https://twitter.com/Yahoo/status/426795724542455808 https://twitter.com/Yahoo/status/426795724542455808

bevenky 13y ago

Back now in San Francisco!

aabalkan 13y ago

Google Plus is a big whitespace https://plus.google.com/ https://plus.google.com/

cornellwright 13y ago

Per their SLA (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html) if it's out for more than 45 minutes (0.1% of January) biz users get 3 free days. Yay?

codex_irl 13y ago

It's back for me - bay area.

TallGuyShort 13y ago

User d1egoaz just hit the Karma Lottery. First and only submission: 435 points in 18 minutes.

d1egoaz 13y ago
That's true :) but I have to say that I follow HN all day (read only mode) until today.

pinaceae 13y ago

http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus had gmail green for a long time, right now half orange. clearly not fully dynamic.

dec0dedab0de 13y ago
I think they have to manually change it

chmars 13y ago

My Gmail is back … :)

rsingla 13y ago

Back for me.

larubbio 13y ago

A friend pinged me over IM to ask if it was down. I hadn't noticed since I've been using the Gmail Offline chrome app. (Which I really wish they'd merge with the main gmail app)

nikbackm 13y ago

Up and running in Europe.

w1ntermute 13y ago

Weird, I seem to be one of the few without any problems. Edit: Gmail up, Hangouts down.

nsns 13y ago

I wonder if Google can be DDOSed; isn't it always?

taigeair 13y ago

that was fast

mvgoogler 13y ago

Both of my accounts just came back up for me. Note - I have no inside knowledge of what's happening. I'm just posting my observations.

adamgravitis 13y ago

Urgh. If only there were a simple protocol to transport mail between distributed systems so the world didn't grind to a halt when the central router died.

debt 13y ago

I'm surprised the status board isn't nearly instant when this type of thing happens. I wonder if it's a manually switch or if it's automatically triggered after a certain number of regions become unavailable.

adventureartist 13y ago

aaaaand we're back

igvadaimon 13y ago

The most tragic part is that I was doing a difficult 2hour test for a company I really want to work at (frontend developer position). And right now I can't send an email with the completed task.

mikegreen 13y ago

Back up, but is anyone else's unread email count fluctuating? I have about 160 (constant #... sad.. I know), but with every third or fifth page refresh it is changing - 191, 160, 380.

anilshanbhag 13y ago

Fastest rise of points seen in the past one year ! On another note, for one moment I got scared as shit - if my data gets erased, I'm done !

joeevans 13y ago

back, but not sending.

vermontdevil 13y ago

It's been up and down for me.

senorsmile 13y ago

Was back for a minute, back down again.

RRRA 13y ago
Same here, it seems it just came back up for a 2nd time ...
- RRRA 13y ago
  Scratch that, very intermittent up/down. . . mostly down!

charleswalter 13y ago

so what? i dont use gmail

acdanger 13y ago

And it's back.

MaysonL 13y ago

Just came back for me

vezzy-fnord 13y ago

And I thought the reaction to Michael Jackson's death was huge... This will probably go down in history as quite a record. I'll wait for the post-downtime analytics.

frik 13y ago

The Google AppsStatus dashboard looks broken at least in Chrome 32 and IE 11. The status indicators orbs are either missing and misaligned. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus

mwenge 13y ago

Still down in Ireland.

georgecmu 13y ago

I should note that only Google Apps Gmail seems to be affected. My non-Google-Apps account is working just fine.

obliojoe 13y ago

It is up for me now, except that I am unable to add any attachments to emails.

jonli1 13y ago

up but flaky...

coreymgilmore 13y ago

backup but slow...changes are most likely still propagating out

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tomrod 13y ago

http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus Thought it was just me. Glad to know I'm not alone.

mickt 13y ago

curiouscat321 13y ago

I'm back. Google Apps using SSO server. Anybody else?

bsgreenb 13y ago

I just realized how you could generate thousands of points of Hacker News karma without ever manually writing a post or comment: Watch all major status pages (e.g. Google, Facebook, Heroku, etc.) and immediately auto-post the link to that page when anything goes down.

elwell 13y ago

Back up for me.

cl8ton 13y ago

Funny to see all the GMail posts: Is GMail down?^2 GMail is down^4 Gmail is still down^10 gmail is back up^2 Gmail was down

tomrod 13y ago

Now all services are down. http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus

wbhart 13y ago

Most Google services except Gmail seem to be having issues at present. My experience was that I was corresponding with someone about a tech support query for an application they run on Google Compute Engine. Just as he asked me to hit some developer swizzlesticks in my Google Chrome, the problems started. First Google Chrome crashed on my PC, then Google chat went, then Gmail, G+ and eventually everything. A few minutes later their Apps Status Dashboard showed an outage. From now on I shall refer to that particular swizzlestick as the Kill Google swizzlestick, and shall laugh maniacally when pressing it.

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chunky1994 13y ago

Google's stock just took a 3% dip (~$36), since 10 AM (close to gmail downtime). https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG

wutbrodo 13y ago
Woww, I don't think I've ever seen a more specious stock-price correlation haha, that's impressive. FB is down almost 4%, AAPL is down almost 2%, TSLA is down almost 4%, AMZN is down almost 3%, the whole S&P 500 is down ~2%. I'm pretty sure the market doesn't think that an Apps outage threatens all those companies (and the whole S&P 500) to the point that they'd shave whole points off all of their market values.

techaddict009 13y ago

Search for Gmail in google and click on "email" which is sub link of gmail. See the magic. Jeff Morsey is doomed with emails !

Pro_bity 13y ago

It's like a snow day.

ashishb4u 13y ago

I see jeff.morse@d214.org

dragos2 13y ago

Does anyone know if a potential incoming email would be lost when Gmail is down?

macinjosh 13y ago

Reason #33 I host my own email.

ChristianMarks 13y ago

I wager 25 cents that no explanation is forthcoming fro Google.

Tossrock 13y ago

http://www.theonion.com/video/google-shuts-down-gmail-for-two-hours-to-show-its,27610/ http://www.theonion.com/video/google-shuts-down-gmail-for-tw...

gcb0 13y ago
would be much funnier if they published an announcement from google sunseting gmail, like reader.

jebblue 13y ago

Glad Google is keeping people informed, also glad to see I'm not the only one developing GWT apps.

lukka5 13y ago

Something explode at Google

zobzu 13y ago

meanwhile, my self hosted mail hasn't failed yet for 15 years. but i heard self hosted mail is hard! (just had to)

dshankar 13y ago

Google has published an outage report: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-several-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-sev...

d1egoaz 13y ago
It's strange that Google did not make validation/testing to configuration files in isolated servers, before publish them to production servers.

stormqloud 13y ago

Their uptime is excellent. It's taken google hpw many years to read bell level reliability?

brianmcdonough 13y ago

I know a lot of people use gmail, but I never understood why...

vladtaltos 13y ago

Am I the only one who finds this google status page a bit difficult to interpret?

spoiler 13y ago

I don't understand how throughout the whole time Gmail was down, it worked for a coworker and me the whole time, but it didn't work for anyone else. We enemy exchanged half a dozen emails to test it! Could it be that the Web app was down, but the actual mail servers weren't? I know I have the Gmail extension in Chrome Installed (not sure about my coworker), could this be the reason?