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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."
So much for handing your email over to Google because it's more reliable than hosting locally...
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I don't know that this is actually news-worthy. I have never worked for a company which has not suffered email outages, no matter how their email is supported. Granted, GMail has a large list of client companies, but you are a fool of the highest order if you think the name will protect you from outages.
WTF how did you get access to my gmail account?
I drank the Google kool-aid about six months ago and moved my personal domain's mail over to the free gmail service. I've been extremely happy with it ever since.
I think it's interesting that I couldn't access my personal domain gmail during this outage, but my @gmail.com account worked without issue.
Solution: Hire food tasters, engineers should only be fed a set number of days after if the tasters aren't dead. Also resolves the issue of engineers complaining about being fed dog food.
That'd be a good name for a superhero: Apocryphal Guy. You always hear about his exploits but never actually see them.
Lemme call up Marvel. I mean, Disney.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
Feel like I'm feeding a troll, but johnjones's ID is so low that I feel this silliness may be taken seriously:
how do you get the data out of gmail to switch providers ?
Same way you would do any remote hosted email migration. POP and IMAP. Additional tools are provided for Google Apps (their for-pay version).
ever serviced a discovery litigation from google ? (you know where they judge you guilty of you dont come up with the data)
sorry but there is a good reason to keep this stuff on site and working...
Umm, an hour of downtime doesn't mean your data is gone. I'll also echo earlier comments -- locally hosted email generally has more problems, as no company but the largest enterprise has the same magnitude of IT equipment and experience as Google.
I've never really understood why so many Slashdotters have this attitude about hosted services. Perhaps they are local IT folks for smaller companies, and fear for their jobs?
It's the same reason Slashdot has:
...and that reason is that code-hackers, having succeeded in something most people find impossible, go on to generalize that they must simply be hypercompetent, and therefore anything done by others must be questionable by comparison. Thus, hosted services, being run by mere mortals, can't be as good as something set up by one's own brilliant self.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
ya'll'll
I'm from from Texas and that even makes my head hurt.
There's some poor schmuck in Bosnia right now googling how to pronounce it.
TL;DR - Southern boy using colloquialism, move along
Hahahaha, I'm from Houston, but grew up even further in the south (think mid Georgia/mid Alabama). Yeah, it's a little tricky, but it'll build character, no?
For the rest of the world, who don't quite grok our quaint pronunciation here in the good ole South, the word ya'll is pronounced like [yawl] similar to [yawn]. It should also be interesting to note that I have used one of the two forms of the conjunction, and I'm often told I use it wrong, but it's a little closer to how we pronounce it. The other spelling is y'all, but that would be pronounced like [ya-awl] and that's just a little to hick-ish even for me.
So if you can get to [yawl] then just tack an extra [ull] on the end and you'll have ya'll'll. You might notice that I tend to conjoin a lot of words, but that's just the spoken style where I've grown up, and as literary style derives from spoken style, well, yeah.
So, ya'll'll have to get a kick out of reading this, and just shake yer heads and mumble something about "that poor southern boy" and if you'd be so kind, drop a dollar in me alms cup as you pass by.
Ok, I've tried now to enlighten the world to some Southern-isms, and I tried to do at least part of it in properly written English, so we'll see. Also, I know it's WAY OT, so hit me with the mod, let's get this over with.
PS, it just means "you all will"
TL;DR - Southern boy using colloquialism, move along
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Because your company and personal sandbox are valid representation of a mail system that serves millions of people. When either of your servers do that you can post bullshit like this.
The parent poster's simple little postfix system doesn't NEED to serve millions of people. That's a feature: by not needing the immense complexity that goes along with running a web-based email system serving millions of people, his system is smaller, simpler, and less prone to problems.
It's impressive that Google's Gmail runs as well as it does given its size, but smaller, simpler solutions are almost always preferable. For company email (especially in a small company, not some behemoth company with 100k employees needing lots of mail servers), it simply makes more sense to use a small, simple mail server like the parent's postfix system, rather than to rely on some external vendor's multimillion-user system. Especially since the software needed to run that system is all available for free.
So, ya'll'll have to get a kick out of reading this, and just shake yer heads and mumble something about "that poor southern boy" and if you'd be so kind, drop a dollar in me alms cup as you pass by.
Grammar Yankee Alert
The proper plural, when referring to a group, is all'ya'll'll
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.