GMail Experiences Serious Outage

JacobSteelsmith was one of many readers to note an ongoing problem with Gmail: "As I type this, GMail is experiencing a major outage. The application status page says there is a problem with GMail affecting a majority of its users. It states a resolution is expected within the next 1.2 hours (no, not a typo on my part). However, email can still be accessed via POP or IMAP, but not, it appears, through an Android device such as the G1." It's also affecting corporate users: Reader David Lechnyr writes "We run a hosted Google Apps system and have been receiving 502 Server Error responses for the past hour. The unusual thing about this is that our Google phone support rep (which paid accounts get) indicated that this outage is also affecting Google employees as well, making it difficult to coordinate."

Comments

Re:Depend on something... pay for admin

[Anonymous Coward]

.. Simply use a mail gateway..

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60730

Was that so hard?

Re:Indeed

[Facegarden]

I'm the guy that switched our email service to Google. See, it only costs us $50/year/user and this has been the first outage in over year...

Well, actually they had an outage in Feb of this year. And in May.

But they are awesome generally, I think their uptime over the past couple years has been beyond 99.99% or something crazy good.
-Taylor