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

Re:gmail outage effecting 0.007% of users

[SJHillman]

He has a license to kill -9

Re:In the mean time...

[bufke]

This is the real benefit with Google Apps. When Google Apps is down...I don't have to do anything! Life is good.

Re:But outages don't happen in the interclouds

[DrEldarion]

They're probably thinking "wow, this response is much faster and the downtime much shorter than when we ran our own services".

Nobody has ever sold cloud services with a guarantee of 100% uptime. It is, however, almost certain to be better than the vast majority of companies' homegrown solutions.

Re:In the mean time...

[MozeeToby]

Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.

Alternatively, if something breaks in Google's servers, it gets immediate attention by people who know a hell of a lot more than I do about maintaining a server. And things are multiply redundant, making something breaking comparatively unlikely.