| 24 Feb 2009 - ahh to be reliant on 'the cloud'.... gmail is down (UPDATED) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Trouble with relying on this all powerful, all wonderful CLOUD for computing is - what happens when she goes down? It's ok for me right now, its 10.30pm... but what about those in the populous areas! Gmail is down... for a while NOTHING, now an error: Google Error Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds http://mail.google.com/support/ reports: 2/24/2009 We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred at approximately 1.30AM Pacific Time. We're working hard to resolve this problem and will post updates as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused. Stay tuned... but consider how reliant we are becoming on OTHERS for our essential services... anyone think that's a worry? (UPDATED:) Update on Gmail2/24/2009 07:29:00 AM The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps usersworldwide is now over. Users should find that they’re able to accesstheir email now without any further problems.Before you can access your Gmail, you may be asked to fill in what’scalled a ‘CAPTCHA’ which asks you to type in a word or some lettersbefore you can proceed. This is perfectly normal when you repeatedlyrequest access to your email account, so please do go through the extrastep – it’s just to verify you are who you say you are. The outage itself lasted approximately two and a half hours from 9.30amGMT. We know that for many of you this disrupted your working day.We’re really sorry about this, and we did do everything to restoreaccess as soon as we could. Our priority was to get you back up andrunning. Our engineers are still investigating the root cause of theproblem. Obviously we’re never happy when outages occur, but we would like tostress that this is an unusual occurrence. We know how important Gmailis to you, and how much people rely on the service. Thanks again for bearing with us. Posted by Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Share your thoughts: Added: Tuesday , 10 Mar 2009 02:56 am I Commented on this Blog When You 1ts Posted it ! Maybe there is a Delay Here with my comment so Let's Try Again! Goni, Here Added: Thursday , 26 Feb 2009 08:28 pm
Yahoo don't have the size of users Google does, but its still a major issue. Then again, we forget that for some reasons, even Australia Post are delayed, some in some way or another this is just an extension of existing life issues! - We just become so reliant, we find it hard to accept problems. As for the web getting overloaded. Yeah, I guess it could, and is. But it's more about the end user. I go to some sites now that on a dial up modem would take 10 minutes or more to load. How is that fair, or smart. You don't build shops that require you to walk slowly past everything but not see the full product for 5 minutes. Consideration MUST go into WHO is using the sites, not JUST how fancy it can look... Trevor Long, Thornleigh Added: Thursday , 26 Feb 2009 08:22 pm Hi Trevor. Marguerite, Central Coast NSW add your comment: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
