Gmail Knocked Offline For 'Majority' Of Users

Associated Press. ^ | September 1, 2009

[george76]

Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a "majority" of users.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the disruption, which led Gmail users to get an "Unable to reach Gmail" error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service.

[elizabethgrace]

Testing the system, 1, 2, 3. Failure complete, comrade.

[A. Morgan]

That does it the Gmailman is off the xmas list, and I mean it!

[george76]

Gmail

[PAR35]

Works for me.

[Salvation]

good. I don’t see why anyone would want to be sending their emails through google who compiles things for Obortion O.

[sionnsar]

Alaska Airline’s servers weren’t working too very well today either.

[Red in Blue PA]

Yahoo email was actually off for me today! Several times.

[Freddd]

Testing, testing, testing on how to do a complete shut down....just a test in advance.

[elizabethgrace]

You know it’s coming. I’m informed. I watch Glenn Beck and save his shows!

[Syntyr]

Yeah and Google want’s me to move my data and business apps to the “cloud”.

Yeah...
Right...

Think I will stick with my PC’s and Network for now. At least I can go down the hall and flick the switch off then back on...

[ShadowAce]

Sorry for the delay on this ping. I did not turn on my computer last night.

[rarestia]

Amen to that! This cloud computing shyt is scary to me. I’ll stick with my Ubuntu server with 500 GB of storage and a tape backup library. I don’t have enough stuff to justify giving everyone access to it.

[McGruff]

It works for me.

[martin_fierro]

Ping.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks, I actually saw them talking about it on Fox last night.

I have been using Gmail since late 2004 and this is the only major outage that I can remember.

[martin_fierro]

I have been using Gmail since late 2004

I think I sent you the invite! < |:)~

[Constitution Day]

Now that you mention it, you DID! Thank you sir!