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Re: Gmail Down for Many

Tyler Hayes — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:01:15 -0000

Got a 502 Server Error here, it's been flaky for a few hours but at least Google Gears worked to keep sync my old email. As soon as I reloaded the window, it won't even let me use that anymore. I'm even using Chrome!

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Tyler Hayes — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:00 -0000

If significant recompense can be proven, then sue Google. There's plenty of precedent for those types of lawsuits.

But may I suggest you first ask yourself: would you sue your IT technician when this happened? Would you dock his pay?

On a more philosophical level, what would you say is decent uptime? 100% (impossible)? 99.99%? 99.7%?

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Tyler Hayes — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:57:52 -0000

Every option mentioned so far is available in both Gmail and Outlook. They really aren't that dissimilar, many of the same most-used features are just set to different defaults.

Either way, I think we've all learned by this point that the phrase "different strokes for different folks" applies well here. While I'm too far away from Outlook at this point, I have to imagine that there are some advantages to it. That said, it is a noticeable trend that more start-ups and Generation X/Y (and some Boomers) are giving the cloud a shot, and sticking with it. As the world becomes more flat, portability becomes more of an issue. As a business owner myself, I can say that I wouldn't mind using Exchange/Outlook, but I'd rather use a cloud service because there have been many times I've found myself around the world without my laptop needing to check email, reference old emails, etc.

Case in point: any student that studies abroad.

PS - On a related note, I just Googled a bit of "Outlook vs. Gmail" and it seems Gmail is universally the winner. What are some distinct, true advantages anyone can think of for a person/business to use Exchange/Outlook over Google Apps?

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Richard — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:54:44 -0000

Gmail has been down for about an hour here in Ohio...It just quit. I had just been on it. I've never had a problem before today...

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Tyler Hayes — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:51:02 -0000

Alex, try enabling Google Gears, which allows you to use the "Gmail Offline" feature. This syncs all your emails (not including attachments) to your computer, just like Outlook would. You can still compose emails that will then send when you re-connect to the Internet as well.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

JoeMescher — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:44:28 -0000

Gmail Outages = Reason for Corporate Resistance to Google Powering their Email Solution

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Saami Matloob — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:09:20 -0000

damn its down again..... wtf \

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Ashley Kirk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:08:51 -0000

gmail is down now for me!

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Eli Dotan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:31:27 -0000

Gmail is down for the last 30 min for me, 23-6-09 14:30 GMT +2

Do you know if this is the situation for many users?

Eli

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Eugen — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:51:48 -0000

I just love Gmail, it is far superior to any of the other mail providers out there. Fast and neat, it's probably the best invention since Google.

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Re: Gmail Down for Many

Sue Todd — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:55:09 -0000

Oh but you can use Outlook on more than one machine and access the same outlook files!

I use it on my desktop and laptop and they synchronise via exchange. I do use Gmail but ...... I like to have my own data on the whole and I like to be able to get at it all the time. I may be a dinosaur though! But I'm with Bob on this one I think.

I've been looking at the cloud a lot more recently and can see benefits but it just takes some down time and I don't much like being that disconnected from my email files.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

kwwphoto — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:27:22 -0000

Outlook is terribly slow, and especially painful on older computers--it takes several minutes just to open the program, let alone download a day's worth of email. More than that, Outlook is limited to one computer--but I have a home desktop, home laptop, work laptop, etc. and there's no way to sync different Outlook installations and folders (what a nightmare that would be!)

I can access the cloud anywhere, from most devices no matter the level of portability. There's no need to sync since I'm working from the same system.

I don't get why anyone would NOT use the cloud to make lives easier.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

vivek — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:23:50 -0000

No problemo here in rajasthan [india] :)

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Marc Handelman — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:13:51 -0000

FYI: This issue affected company hosted mail at Google as well. My company included. While it is a relatively trivial matter to modify our own DNS records and keep the mail flowing, why should we utilize our own internal private mail servers when paying good money for the service? Furthermore, no offers of recompense are forthcoming from Google [after all, there is a quantifiable cost to this downtime]. Fundamental issues of uptime, at the search giant are apparently unresolved. Cloud computing mission critical applications are apparently not ready for primetime.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Jim Gaudet — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:30:38 -0000

That could be and is a good point. The thing is, and I have no stats at all just my personal xp, I cannot remember gmail going down as much as it has in the last 12 months. I have no idea why, but I think we are too used to gmail always working and when it doesn't, watch out. WE NEED OUR EMAIL..

I have learned the best way to deal with "downtime" is to turn it into uptime. For example; when gmail is down and you KNOW it will be back up, relax in this moment. Take a break, stand up. Breathe, step away from your computer. Not having your email for 15 minutes won't be that bad...

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Bob Chapman — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:28 -0000

I use full Outlook at home. I don't use Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or any other variant.

The only time I can't get to my e-mail is when the ADSL line is down, which now is rare. I am able to create e-mail in several programs in addition to Outlook, depending how "fancy" I want it to look when opened. I'm able to link thumbnails to full images on my domain in order to save e-mail download time.

My BlackBerry is able to access all my e-mail when it is still on the server (don't leave home and forget to close Outlook). I am able to respond to anyone using my thumbs.

I don't get why anyone would want to depend on the cloud.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

swag — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:33:12 -0000

Oh the humanity.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Susan Penter — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:45:28 -0000

I think G-mail users are simply the most active people on the web and therefore we're the worst hit when we can't access either our mail or our calendar or our reads. Plus we rely so heavily on Google and perhaps have unrealistic expectations that we will never be let down.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Pixel Studio Works™ — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:40:14 -0000

Cool!

I'm having no problem with gmail.

In India.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

stenro — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:55:08 -0000

It seems that this downtime was for a good reason- looks like they finally fixed the problem of images automaticaly showing in email. It's taken them a month to resolve which was pretty bad.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

pj — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:02:36 -0000

I dont think gmail user are more connected online then others. It just that if they can´t connect, they don´t get access to their mailbox. Maybe "offline" (labs) will solve this...

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Chuck — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:45:38 -0000

For those that have enterprise apps you can get money back from the SLA. I am wondering if people that bought storage can get the same.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Andrew — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:30:11 -0000

I think that Gmail is not working for technical reasons...in a few days it works

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Bike Gamer — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:46:06 -0000

I'm having no problem with gmail.

Re: Gmail Down for Many

Anita Hunt — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:36:13 -0000

Is the frequency of Gmail issues increasing, while socnet use overtakes email? http://is.gd/Cj5k