Google Outage

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1366204363099

by arunagarwal • 13 years ago

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arunagarwal2• 13 years ago

Drive and Docs are down now!

AndrewDucker• 13 years ago

Google Groups also failing.

anigbrowl2• 13 years ago

Something something rimshot.

Ironically, Google Reader has been fine.

de_dave• 13 years ago

Both apps- and non-apps working fine here in the UK.

From the status page: "This issue is affecting less than 0.007% of the Google Mail user base"

whafro• 13 years ago

Maybe that's true in the usual way we'd understand that percentage (the percentage of total users subject to this particular issue). But based on the fact that all seven of my Google accounts were inaccessible via IMAP, I'm wondering if they only had 0.007% of users fail in their attempt to access the service during that window, while many other potentially-affected users were simply blissfully ignorant of the issue.

CodeCube• 13 years ago

heh, as I was first scanning the HN homepage, I read this as "Google Outrage" and immediately thought it was talking about something like the scroogled campaign.

Laremere• 13 years ago

My university google accounts were down earlier. They're back now though.

sp8• 13 years ago

The UK University I work at is experiencing problems with IMAP connections and intermittent problems with Google Drive. I believe other UK Universities are also experiencing similar problems.

Web access to the same services seems OK though.

brokentone• 13 years ago

My hosting provider had some serious connection issues moments ago, and I'm seeing some major latency and packet loss at L3: http://internethealthreport.com/

Anyone have any insight?

jeffehobbs• 13 years ago

For a second, thanks to that headline, I thought this was a new service from Google (and frankly, I was excited for it).

mikeash• 13 years ago

In a way, it is.

anigbrowl2• 13 years ago

'Helps you spend more time away from the computer, doing the things you really care about!'

Sign me up :)

lucb1e3• 13 years ago

You probably just spoiled Google's April fools for next year.

pyre• 13 years ago

Well, I initially read it as Google Outrage. I wonder if that would be a better product name. ;-)

jofo25• 13 years ago

Good name for Google's complaints system.

n3rdy• 13 years ago

Google Outage: When you need to kick a site offline, Google now provides the most powerful network for all your nefarious packet flooding needs. Don't be too evil. Wink! Wink!

I mean, Google Outage: When you need to know if a site is offline!

shrikant• 13 years ago

Well that's an unfortunate coincidence. They only just sent out this email a couple of days back: http://i.imgur.com/yZOdKTb.png

shawabawa3• 13 years ago

To be fair, they only quoted 3 9's and I doubt they'll lose that because of this

wahsd• 13 years ago

uptime percentages are a useless measure

jamesaguilar• 13 years ago

According to the mail outage info, it's only affecting .007% of users anyway. Pay the SLA penalty for those guys and move on.

arunagarwal2• 13 years ago

Experiencing problems with IMAP connections!

kristaps• 13 years ago

> Google Documents service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.

So many words for "we're still working on it."

robflynn• 13 years ago

Of my 10 google apps for domain accounts, 9 were down. They seem to have all trickled back online over the past 30 minutes.

Looks like things are coming back online gradually.

philbarr• 13 years ago

You gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.

dspeyer2• 13 years ago

Google is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.

bproctor• 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure he was joking

rgbrenner• 13 years ago

I hope not.. If it takes more than a couple of minutes for you to figure out how to plug in a cable, I would wonder why google let you in the building

lucb1e3• 13 years ago

I was expecting a blogpost about it with explanation like Cloudflare always has. But no, Google's not like that I guess.

cobrien• 13 years ago

It's oddly amusing that a similar outage occurred exactly one year ago, 17 April 2012: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/17/2954949/gmail-outage-april...

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