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Gmail down worldwide
IT APPEARS that Gmail, Google's ever beta internet mail service, is suffering some cross-continental downtime, and has been for at least the last 20 minutes.
The Google webmail blackout seems to be wide-reaching with users on microblogging site Twitter reporting outages from around the world.
Attempts to use Gmail yielded the message: “Oooops.... the system encountered a problem,” giving error 500, code 26 as the reason.
Nice to meet you problem, now piss off!
A rather melodramatic twitter user was seen shrieking, we presume: "Gmail is down! Gmail is down! Gmail is down! Gmail is down! Gmail is down! We're all going to die!!!!!"
Oh, go calm down and make yourself a cuppa tea or something. µ
*UPDATE: Gmail resurrected itself from the dead a few minutes ago, almost an hour after it went down.
Rob Lovell, CEO of ThinkGrid, a UK provider of hosted business IT, was apparently outraged by the outage, sending the INQ an unsolicited statement in which he declares that Google's "services are too risky for business use."
"The latest Gmail outage today again highlights the business risk of using this service," foamed Lovell, adding that although the cloud model could "bring significant benefits to companies," this doesn't mean "the management principles applied to traditional IT should discarded."
"Google's one business day [service level agreement (SLA) policy] leaves too much room for error. In the current climate this can spell disaster," raged Lovell, adding that organisations "should be looking to cloud providers who can provide far tighter SLAs and support." Harumph!
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In times of crisis or hangover all we need is a nice hot cuppa. I'll 'ave an Earl if you don't mind.
Could've been one of those massive "your account has been terminated due to TOS violation" waves.
Nope no problem hear. been using it all morning. sending emails out and tidyng up in box. Not a single problem.
yeah !!! I got Temporary Error (500)
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They may fixed some insecure hole as XSS on that article.
http://securethoughts.com/
7 Has NEW Featured Requirement. You Cann't USE 7 On Less than ip6.
7 Supports ipv.4, if thats Single option. Yet, What GooGle experience IS OLD Equipment. If End Load Was ip6 Compliant, That could of Been Staved Off for months or even Years, ipv.6 IS That PowerFul ST drashek
We use Microsoft Exchange at my job. I access my email via Outlook Web Access. OWA is slow, has poor usability and is often unavailable due to software patches. I contrast this to gmail, which is blindingly fast, far easier to use, has tons of additional features, (with gears) goes offline without a bloated client, and is occasionally unavailable. Oh yeah, it's free. I don't see the problem.
Sean has a good point. Even companies that have their own email servers have trouble sometimes. The email at my company doesn't go down often, but it is definitely more often than Gmail, and is generally out longer than an hour when it does go down.
Business managers get frustrated when there isn't anybody to call and say "Get this working!". They need to stop and realize that Gmail is unavailable less often, and comes back up quicker than their own services would even without them getting involved. Just because they can't control Gmail doesn't make it more risky.
Who on earth would use a product with 'beta' written next to it in a business environment?
I see Same. If equipemtn is OLD then you can Never do ipv6 connections without 7 unless cofiguNerd Right!
...drashek, get your english right, please! you crazy man =)
... at the price. Besides, it would be a very sad comment on life if I could not live without email for a couple of hours.
Why is there such a fuss about a free beta product going under. It definitly shouldn't be used for a business environment, and normal users shouldn't complain because its free.
It's just the usual taking for granted that people do.
My span has been down by 90% for 2 days now. Hack attacks gone. Have other seen the same? Does Gmail have a bigger problem?
Larry
GMail's 99.9999998% uptime is unacceptable - only 99.9999999% uptime should be considered "reliable". Conveniently, you can obtain these services from ThinkGrid.
Funny that a guy running cloud services recommends using cloud services?
And oh? gmail is as far as I am aware a cloud service.
When will these idiots stop spinning cloud as a new technology, it isn't.
It's decade old technology with a new spin on it, that costs more.
Malcolm is correct, gmail's backbone is a cloud service. And I agree 100%, all this talk of cloud computing is PR trash for old technology.
How often is Gmail down?
They provide such an excellent service compared to the other free emailer providers that 1hr downtime is hardly something to complain about.
Hotmail doesn't filter spam as well as gmail and it's far more annoying deleting spam every day than not being able to access it once in a year.
Has this issue been fixed? Gmail has been down for me for 24 hours now...
It is freaking 1 hour already here in FL, at 5:18 EST!
Yeah - it fits the requirement (for now) - but I NEVER had email down neither with MS Exchange not Lunix solutions for more then few seconds! This suppose to be a distributed system
when was that? it was hours before they fixed it.
Like, what? outages don't happen?
When was the last time power went out in your neighborhood?
I think we got spoiled and now we expect 100% uptime from Google.
We use Gmail for our business and we have a much bigger problem with At&t's SLOW Fast Access DSL than with Gmail being down for an hour...