Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide(thenextweb.com)

130 pointsby mgcreed17 tahun yang lalu77 comments

Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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

31 comments

pluc17 tahun yang lalu

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

EGF17 tahun yang lalu

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.

j2d217 tahun yang lalu

Gmail is back.

[deleted]17 tahun yang lalu

pbhj17 tahun yang lalu

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.

Afton17 tahun yang lalu

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.

callahad17 tahun yang lalu

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.

pbhj17 tahun yang lalu

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.

compay17 tahun yang lalu

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

jmackinn17 tahun yang lalu

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.

pbhj17 tahun yang lalu

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?

mkinsella17 tahun yang lalu

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.

fishercs17 tahun yang lalu

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

I feel sorry for those poor sysadmins

Mongoose17 tahun yang lalu

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

ars17 tahun yang lalu

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.

modoc17 tahun yang lalu

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).

natrius17 tahun yang lalu

Google is a better sysadmin than I am. I assume most people are in the same boat.

lsc17 tahun yang lalu

I 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)

antonovka17 tahun yang lalu

This is true, but also very unfortunate, as GMail is often a poor substitute for a well-administered in-house e-mail system.

modoc17 tahun yang lalu

Running a mail system for 10 people is a lot easier than running one for a few million.

gehant17 tahun yang lalu

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

ujjwalg17 tahun yang lalu

second that. And now techcrunch down too.

l0nwlf17 tahun yang lalu

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

timcederman17 tahun yang lalu

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

omouse17 tahun yang lalu

And Microsoft and Yahoo employees bust out the champagne :D

snprbob8617 tahun yang lalu

Dogfooding Exchange vNext is never fun...

rokhayakebe17 tahun yang lalu

Except for those who secretly use Gmail at home.

[deleted]17 tahun yang lalu

nailer17 tahun yang lalu

And credit card auth on Android Market it seems.

superchink17 tahun yang lalu

Just imagine all those lost profits...

nick00717 tahun yang lalu

i estimate that i'm already out $4, maybe $5 from this

nailer17 tahun yang lalu

Out of curiosity, what's your app?

byrneseyeview17 tahun yang lalu

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

See, I can do it, too!

rudd17 tahun yang lalu

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

lanaer17 tahun yang lalu

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

secret17 tahun yang lalu

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

wwkeyboard17 tahun yang lalu

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

donw17 tahun yang lalu

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

joshuaxls17 tahun yang lalu

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

mitchellh17 tahun yang lalu

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

Mongoose17 tahun yang lalu

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

dfischer17 tahun yang lalu

Lol, so true.

madars17 tahun yang lalu

Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3.

It's not all that bad :)

datums17 tahun yang lalu

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...

datums17 tahun yang lalu

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.

iguanatom17 tahun yang lalu

Yeah, that's down too now. 502 error

l0nwlf17 tahun yang lalu

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

ccarpenterg17 tahun yang lalu

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

Leon17 tahun yang lalu

works for me

nollidge17 tahun yang lalu

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).

Leon17 tahun yang lalu

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?

garply17 tahun yang lalu

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

dhyasama17 tahun yang lalu

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

icey17 tahun yang lalu

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

Devilboy17 tahun yang lalu

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

noodle17 tahun yang lalu

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.

nollidge17 tahun yang lalu

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.

grandalf17 tahun yang lalu

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

sid17 tahun yang lalu

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

commiebob17 tahun yang lalu

"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.

barredo17 tahun yang lalu

IMAP and POP3 are working fine

gibsonf117 tahun yang lalu

Dumb workaround: Forward mail from Iphone IMAP to yahoo account

Derrek17 tahun yang lalu

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

rg17 tahun yang lalu

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

rg17 tahun yang lalu

Same machine is up, 2:32pm PDT

jacktang17 tahun yang lalu

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 :(

cschep17 tahun yang lalu

Back up here in Portland, OR.

simplegeek17 tahun yang lalu

Even down here in Pakistan ;(

kansando17 tahun yang lalu

On the 28th day - we crash.

mishmax17 tahun yang lalu

Back up for me!

fjabre17 tahun yang lalu

Brazil is down

onreact-com17 tahun yang lalu

- 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.

l0nwlf17 tahun yang lalu

502 Server Error

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

#fail

Readmore17 tahun yang lalu

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

harry17 tahun yang lalu

Actually, GV is working fine.

yan17 tahun yang lalu

I think the OP meant outages in general

Readmore17 tahun yang lalu

Exactly. With feigned 'outrage' at Arrington for all his Google Voice love as of late.

viraptor17 tahun yang lalu

Are you suggesting that cell towers never fail?

sfphotoarts17 tahun yang lalu

they 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.