Google Gmail Having Problems Again
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It seems that Google is having another of its hic-cups once again, but this time the downtime seems more serious. It appears that the down time is world wide and Google is struggling to get it fixed. According to this article at TechCrunch which states:
Gmail is having a systemwide outage affecting multiple countries, and a whole bunch of its 100 million users are screaming about it on Twitter. Around 20 million people visit Gmail each day, according to Comscore, and they’re all seeing the same message. The first outages were reported at about 2 pm PST, 44 minutes ago. The Gmail blog is silent on the outage, instead giving readers some useful tips on customizing web clips.
Hello Google! Could you please post something on your blog letting us gmail users know what the heck is going on? This isn’t funny any longer. Your service is coming under deeper scrutiny by all of us. Shape up Google!
What do you think? Can we trust Google with our data? Or are they becoming another Yahoo?
Comments welcome.
PS I just saw this:
The Gmail team is currently aware of a subset of users being affected
by the 502 error on login. Our engineers are looking into the issue
and we will provide updates here as they become available.
Thanks,
Gmail Guide
5 Comments
Matt McCarty
August 11th, 2008
at 4:54pm
I was just able to log back in, after an hour of being locked out, and I had to send a small file, about 1.5mb and it took roughly 25min to send.
ShadowMyth
August 12th, 2008
at 8:20am
I have never had an email service that does not go down every now and again…ever. No system is absolutely perfect, and the fact is, technology gets glitches now and again.
It would be polite though if they were to explain the situation, and let it’s users know what is going on. I myself have experienced several periods of downtime from GMail in the last six months.
Bobzilla
August 12th, 2008
at 8:57am
Ok, for you guys that are having Gmail outages and are upset… just don’t pay your bill this month. Money talks.
Ray
August 12th, 2008
at 7:38pm
What do you want for free?
ekompute
August 15th, 2009
at 11:22am
I don’t have problem accessing Gmail. My problem is that the cursor doesn’t appear in Firefox when I try to reply to a mail, but when I use Safari, I do not have any problem. Seems like Firefox is having a problem too.