Google's Gmail service crashes across world

[jordi_fanclub]

Source: UK's The Telegraph

Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages.

The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.

It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.

Google could not confirm what had caused the outage. “A number of users are having difficulty accessing Gmail,” said the company in a statement. “We are working to resolve the problem. We know how important Gmail is to users, so we take issues like this very seriously, and we apologise for the inconvenience.

“We are posting status updates about the problem at mail.google.com/support.”

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4797727/Googles-Gmail-service-crashes-across-world.html

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Google’s crew are discussing the matter on this page: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-Alerts-en/browse_thread/thread/6f26438e449894da/986622c7325594ac#986622c7325594ac

[Sanity Claws]

1. So that's what's going on

I couldn't access my gmail account this morning.
Thanks for posting this message.

[WolverineDG]

2. "small subset of users"

sounds like everybody, because I can't get into my gmail account either. :(

dg

[LostinVA]

12. I wasn't able to until a few minutes ago

[WolverineDG]

14. I was able to get in too

Yay!

dg

[Brazenly Liberal]

3. It's affecting the US, too.

I haven't been able to get into gmail this morning.

[sufrommich]

4. My gmail is gone,too. Hope it's back up soon. nt

[DemzRock]

Dup - sorry n/t

[DemzRock]

5. Why do poeple like Gmail so much anyway?

What's wrong with an ordinary pop mail account via your ISP?

[Lucky Luciano]

6. You might change your ISP...which means changing your email

which is quite annoying....and GMail is usually quite good and has huge storage.

[jordi_fanclub]

7. Because it's an ISP-independent mail provider...

The short explanation is:
ISP dependent accounts means... you cannot change easily from an ISP to another.
(at some point, as example when moving from a city to another, you must pay for the new and the old ISP)

[nolabels]

11. There are also services that specialize in providing E-mail for a small fee

I was thinking a free service like G-mail would be good till i noticed how much junk the pay service filtered out. The other worry would be something like a crash in the service, the free service might feel a lot less pressure for repair since they sing to the tune of advertisers :shrug:

[jordi_fanclub]

13. Yep but Google also have a paid service...

What is down at this moment is all: the free AND the paid.

Current Gmail outage
2/24/2009 04:28:00 AM
If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-gmail-outage.html

[nolabels]

17. In the two or three years of doing bussiness with the service i have...

i have only had to contact them once. But the trick is, i called them on the phone and i had no wait time at all :wow:

The URL is www.BlueTie.com

[Belial]

8. My POP account doesn't let me

have 7GB's of storage free. I also have a little program I use that treats Gmail like a harddrive and lets me store files on there off my laptop..

[DemzRock]

Dup - sorry n/t

[DemzRock]

10. Hell, I wouldn't trust google with my files! Sheesh!

And there are tons of other email services including ISP-independant POP email services! Some are free too!

[MannyGoldstein]

9. My GMail is OK This AM

Hope everyone else's is too, soon.

[WolverineDG]

15. Mine came back online a few minute ago nt

[jordi_fanclub]

16. Good! Same here... seems they found a quick solution! (n/t)