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Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide
- pluc 17y agohttp://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en
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- EGF 17y agoI 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.
- j2d2 17y agoGmail is back.
- mitchellh 17y agoNo gmail at work = Its lunchtime for me. Hurray Google for naturally putting me on break!
- rg 17y agoGmail 502 error from San Francisco 12:52 pm PDT.
- rg 17y agoSame machine is up, 2:32pm PDT
- timcederman 17y agoEven Google's internal corporate mail is down. Yikes.
- omouse 17y agoAnd Microsoft and Yahoo employees bust out the champagne :D
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- snprbob86 17y agoDogfooding Exchange vNext is never fun...
- rokhayakebe 17y agoExcept for those who secretly use Gmail at home.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoAnd Larry and Sergei only answer their phone after two and a half rings! See, I can do it, too!
- nailer 17y agoAnd credit card auth on Android Market it seems.
- superchink 17y agoJust imagine all those lost profits...
- nick007 17y agoi estimate that i'm already out $4, maybe $5 from this
- fishercs 17y agoSometimes its pretty nice to be the end user of a big problem. I feel sorry for those poor sysadmins
- l0nwlf 17y ago502 Server Error [ $date -u => Tue Sep 1 19:59:05 UTC 2009 ] #fail
- Mongoose 17y agoAll 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 http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
- ujjwalg 17y agosecond that. And now techcrunch down too.
- l0nwlf 17y agohttp://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/
- ars 17y agoBut 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.
- modoc 17y agoThe 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).
- natrius 17y agoGoogle is a better sysadmin than I am. I assume most people are in the same boat.
- lsc 17y agoI know google hires some people who are better than me, but that doesn't mean the gmail system is better than something I could engineer.... For one thing, google needs to have a much lower cost per user than I do, forcing them to make some choices that I don't have to. I have no problem paying $50 a month for email service, and that level of cost per user would be untenable on a free email service. (I host most of my email myself, and I'm trading a free co-lo to mark perkel of junkemailfilter.com to do my filtering. between that and my time, I'd guess $50/month)
- datums 17y agoI 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&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwm%26ui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=zpwhtygjntrz&scc=1<mpl=default<mplcache=2&hl=en https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail...
- Readmore 17y agoAnd that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!
- harry 17y agoActually, GV is working fine.
- yan 17y agoI think the OP meant outages in general
- Readmore 17y agoExactly. With feigned 'outrage' at Arrington for all his Google Voice love as of late.
- viraptor 17y agoAre you suggesting that cell towers never fail?
- sfphotoarts 17y agothey do fail, often, in fact, but the difference is that its a decentralized system and several towers being down isn't a big deal, its just a normal day. They contract with many carriers to carry data and often a single cell site is multihosted so any one carrier switches to another provider, who now has them over a barrel so charges them more. Cell tower failures affect the mobile carriers profits, and not necessarily the users service.
- sid 17y agoAustralia down as well ... was just about to click on an exciting mail when .. pop !! you are now accessing offline mail :( waits while twiddles thumb
- wwkeyboard 17y agoI wonder what the load on that little machine that's spitting out 502's is right now...
- donw 17y agoI'll give you a hint: It's in Los Angeles...
- rudd 17y agoHuh. GMail is down for me, but GMail's IMAP is still working. I didn't even notice.
- garply 17y agoWow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.
- barredo 17y agoIMAP and POP3 are working fine
- gibsonf1 17y agoDumb workaround: Forward mail from Iphone IMAP to yahoo account
- kansando 17y agoOn the 28th day - we crash.
- joshuaxls 17y agoCoincidentally, their "Go Google" billboard campaign just ended today.
- madars 17y agoWorkarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3. It's not all that bad :)
- l0nwlf 17y agohttp://www.google.com/ig http://www.google.com/ig shows me signed-in in chat-mode. Can anyone explain why so ?
- ccarpenterg 17y agoGMail at iGoogle is working for me. Edit: It was working. Not anymore.
- Leon 17y agoworks for me
- nollidge 17y agoiGoogle has the chat feature enabled by default, IIRC. You can shut it off via Options (at the bottom of the widget) > Hide (I think, this is off the top of my head).
- grandalf 17y agoHah just checked HN while waiting for gmail to log me in...
- simplegeek 17y agoEven down here in Pakistan ;(
- noodle 17y agoi'd like to note that i can access gmail through the igoogle gmail widget, and just got, read and responded to a fresh email through it. can't access gmail through any other means. thought it might be useful for everyone to know and give it a shot.
- nollidge 17y agoWorks via iGoogle for me as well, and I've received a couple e-mails from GMail users from their iPhones. So presumably it's just the web front-end that's busted.
- mkinsella 17y agoInterestingly, GMail has failed twice in the last few weeks since they removed it from beta. Before that, I can only remember one large-scale outage over the previous few years.
- Leon 17y agoStrange, I just did a search for movie show times in my area earlier and just now, and it seems that some cinemas are missing. The timing lines up exactly with the gmail outage. Since those theaters have always been listed in the movie showtime search as long as I can remember, this could be part of a larger service outage. What else is down that they aren't telling us?
- pbhj 17y agoUS date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture. I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.
- Afton 17y agoThe order is logical, it maps to the way many americans speak. E.g. July 4th, 2000, which is always spoken as ... er... the 4th of july, 2009. Well. uh. Bad example.
- compay 17y agoA logical justification could be found for any order. It's just arbitrary.
- jmackinn 17y agoIt would be good to hear a logical justification for the mm-dd-yyyy. I'm not sure I can come up with one. It makes it hard to search and it doesn't follow any sequential order. yyyy-mm-dd actually goes up by one each day. Try it next time you have to number give files a date stamp and you'll find it makes your life a lot simpler.
- pbhj 17y agoOf course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings. Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?
- callahad 17y agoI've taken to writing %d %b %Y when possible. It's unambiguous and provides sane ordering. And somehow I find it easier to map from %b to an ordinal than vice versa.
- fjabre 17y agoBrazil is down
- commiebob 17y ago"We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 5:16:00" Hit refresh at 5:16 and it's back up. That was pretty impressive.
- cschep 17y agoBack up here in Portland, OR.
- Derrek 17y agoJust tried. It's back up for me in Washington, DC, USA
- mishmax 17y agoBack up for me!
- jacktang 17y agoping mail.xx.com PING ghs.l.google.com (72.14.203.121) 56(84) bytes of data. Customize URL in Google App/email is broken :(
- onreact-com 17y ago- Darling, do you remember the day when Google was down? - You mean the day 9 months before our son was born? === Enjoy it while it lasts.