Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage

First time accepted submitter Landy DeField writes "Tried accessing your Gmail today? You may be faced with 'Temporary Error (500)' error message. Tried to get more detailed information by clicking on the 'Show Detailed Technical Info' link which loads a single line... 'Numeric Code: 5.' Clicked on the App status dashboard link. All were green except for the Admin Control Panel / API. Took a glance 2 minutes ago and now, Google mail and Google Drive are orange and Admin Control Panel / API is red. Look forward to the actual ...'Detailed Technical Info' on what is going on." The apps dashboard confirms that there is a partial outage of many Google Apps. The Next Web ran a quick article about this, and in the process discovered there was an outage on the same date last year.

Comments

Yearly thing

[Quakeulf]

It's like the start of a new tradition! Yay! :3

Can't you guys read?

[ArcadeMan]

They sent an email explaining the cause of the... oh wait.

Re:gmail outage effecting 0.007% of users

[ArcadeMan]

So, only James Bond is affected?

Re:gmail outage effecting 0.007% of users

[SJHillman]

He has a license to kill -9

Re:Oh well

[ColdWetDog]

This is easily solved by keeping an old tower around, prefereably with lots of fans and blinky lights. When something is down, you drag an impressive amount of gear and supplies around it (Mountain Dews, Cheetos, beer, etc.) and look busy until Google figures it out.

They'll never know. If they ask, you are working on the Google 'preprocessor' or something like that.