Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/01/google-experiencing-downtime-world/#

by mgcreed • 17 years ago

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rg2• 17 years ago

Gmail 502 error from San Francisco 12:52 pm PDT.

rg2• 17 years ago

Same machine is up, 2:32pm PDT

timcederman• 17 years ago

Even Google's internal corporate mail is down. Yikes.

omouse• 17 years ago

And Microsoft and Yahoo employees bust out the champagne :D

snprbob86• 17 years ago

Dogfooding Exchange vNext is never fun...

rokhayakebe• 17 years ago

Except for those who secretly use Gmail at home.

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

And Larry and Sergei only answer their phone after two and a half rings!

See, I can do it, too!

nailer2• 17 years ago

And credit card auth on Android Market it seems.

superchink• 17 years ago

Just imagine all those lost profits...

fishercs• 17 years ago

Sometimes its pretty nice to be the end user of a big problem.

I feel sorry for those poor sysadmins

l0nwlf3• 17 years ago

502 Server Error

[ $date -u => Tue Sep 1 19:59:05 UTC 2009 ]

#fail

Mongoose2• 17 years ago

All 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

ujjwalg• 17 years ago

second that. And now techcrunch down too.

l0nwlf3• 17 years ago

http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/

ars• 17 years ago

But 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.

modoc2• 17 years ago

The 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).

gehant• 17 years ago

This phrase comes to mind... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s

pluc• 17 years ago

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

EGF• 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

Gmail is back.

mitchellh• 17 years ago

No gmail at work = Its lunchtime for me. Hurray Google for naturally putting me on break!

Mongoose2• 17 years ago

Ditto. Back to Dino Comics, TED talks, and SICP.

dfischer• 17 years ago

Lol, so true.

datums2• 17 years ago

I 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...

datums2• 17 years ago

nvm that only gets you the login screen

Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

iguanatom• 17 years ago

Yeah, that's down too now. 502 error

Readmore2• 17 years ago

And that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!

harry• 17 years ago

Actually, GV is working fine.

yan• 17 years ago

I think the OP meant outages in general

sid• 17 years ago

Australia 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• 17 years ago

I wonder what the load on that little machine that's spitting out 502's is right now...

donw• 17 years ago

I'll give you a hint: It's in Los Angeles...

rudd• 17 years ago

Huh. GMail is down for me, but GMail's IMAP is still working. I didn't even notice.

lanaer• 17 years ago

Yeah. I only ever use GMail through IMAP, and then didn’t find this until after it was back up. Never had a clue.

secret• 17 years ago

Me too. I'm still getting emails to my phone.

garply• 17 years ago

Wow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.

dhyasama• 17 years ago

Everything goes down sometimes. I've found Gmail to be more stable than most.

icey• 17 years ago

Yeah, at least when gmail goes down, everyone knows about it.

Devilboy• 17 years ago

I dare you to list a more reliable service with a comparable price.

barredo• 17 years ago

IMAP and POP3 are working fine

gibsonf1• 17 years ago

Dumb workaround: Forward mail from Iphone IMAP to yahoo account

kansando• 17 years ago

On the 28th day - we crash.

joshuaxls• 17 years ago

Coincidentally, their "Go Google" billboard campaign just ended today.

madars• 17 years ago

Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3.

It's not all that bad :)

l0nwlf3• 17 years ago

http://www.google.com/ig shows me signed-in in chat-mode. Can anyone explain why so ?

ccarpenterg• 17 years ago

GMail at iGoogle is working for me. Edit: It was working. Not anymore.

Leon2• 17 years ago

works for me

nollidge2• 17 years ago

iGoogle 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• 17 years ago

Hah just checked HN while waiting for gmail to log me in...

simplegeek• 17 years ago

Even down here in Pakistan ;(

noodle• 17 years ago

i'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.

nollidge2• 17 years ago

Works 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• 17 years ago

Interestingly, 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.

Leon2• 17 years ago

Strange, 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?

pbhj3• 17 years ago

US 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• 17 years ago

The 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• 17 years ago

A logical justification could be found for any order. It's just arbitrary.

jmackinn• 17 years ago

It 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.

pbhj3• 17 years ago

Of 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• 17 years ago

I'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.

pbhj3• 17 years ago

Thats: %d - 2 digit day number by month; %b - 3 letter month name; %Y - 4 digit year CE; for those who don't recall so well.

fjabre• 17 years ago

Brazil is down

commiebob• 17 years 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• 17 years ago

Back up here in Portland, OR.

Derrek• 17 years ago

Just tried. It's back up for me in Washington, DC, USA

mishmax• 17 years ago

Back up for me!

jacktang• 17 years ago

ping 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• 17 years ago

- Darling, do you remember the day when Google was down?

- You mean the day 9 months before our son was born?

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Enjoy it while it lasts.

Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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