Gmail grinds to a halt

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Deze pijn wordt kennelijk over de hele wereld gevoeld :)
Toch begrijp ik iets niet, internet is gebouwd om redundante verbindingen
te hebben. Always ON!
Maar kennelijk gaan we die verbinding nu met slechts één punt leggen?

Dat was toch niet de bedoeling?

Groet / Cees

By Ry Crozier
Sep 2, 2009 8:06 AM

Google “feels your pain”.

Web giant Google's Gmail service appeared to suffer a worldwide outage
today, again casting doubt on its reliability for use as a primary email
service.

Australian users reported the outage on the Whirlpool broadband forums at
just after 6.00am Australian Eastern time.

The service appeared to have been restored around 7.45am, but it is
uncertain whether emails sent to Gmail addresses during the outages have
been restored.

The company initially claimed the issue affected only "a small subset of
users" and that "service had already been restored for some users" less
than 20 minutes later.

Google also attempted to play down the outage on its Gmail blog, stating
"we don't usually post about minor issues here".

But it acknowledged that "many" customers were having trouble accessing
Gmail.

"We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now - we are
too, and we definitely feel your pain," the firm said.

"Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we're
currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share
shortly," the post said.

Google said it was "terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get
Gmail back up and running as soon as possible".

The company has also recommended users access their Gmail accounts via
IMAP or POP.

Google is locked in a marketing battle with Microsoft to convince
corporate users that Gmail was an enterprise-ready alternative to
traditional Exchange or Lotus-based systems.

Universities were a key battleground with Adelaide University among those
to sign up to the Gmail service.

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