Gmail outages
September 5th 2009 03:23
Gmail may have to take out a kind of disability insurance.
Although their blog post from the 1st Sept says everything that caused the big outage on that day has been fixed, I found that for about ten minutes this morning I couldn't get gmail to run again. That's at least twice this week, and possible thrice.
Scary. The wonderful reliability of gmail is something that we all count on; because we can access our email from anywhere, we leave stuff on there that will help us work things out wherever we are. Gmail has become the way to go when it comes to email. At least I think it has - and plainly a huge number of other users think so to.
Compare any other online email site with gmail and you wonder how anyone can use them. Okay, maybe my experience is a bit limited, but two NZ examples come to mind straight away. Xtra and maxnet. If you haven't used Xtra off your home computer before you have to go through an enormous and unnecessary rigmarole to get into the site, answering all sorts of set-up-type questions that have been dealt with the first time you used the site.
Maxnet isn't so bad, but it's clunky to use, and not friendly.
I resisted using gmail for quite some time after my son first discovered it (back in the days when you had to be 'invited' onto it), but once I got into it, I quickly gave up my old programme (Eudora) and went full on for gmail. I wouldn't look back - so let's hope the problems it's been having will be dealt with once and for all.
Although their blog post from the 1st Sept says everything that caused the big outage on that day has been fixed, I found that for about ten minutes this morning I couldn't get gmail to run again. That's at least twice this week, and possible thrice.
Scary. The wonderful reliability of gmail is something that we all count on; because we can access our email from anywhere, we leave stuff on there that will help us work things out wherever we are. Gmail has become the way to go when it comes to email. At least I think it has - and plainly a huge number of other users think so to.
Compare any other online email site with gmail and you wonder how anyone can use them. Okay, maybe my experience is a bit limited, but two NZ examples come to mind straight away. Xtra and maxnet. If you haven't used Xtra off your home computer before you have to go through an enormous and unnecessary rigmarole to get into the site, answering all sorts of set-up-type questions that have been dealt with the first time you used the site.
Maxnet isn't so bad, but it's clunky to use, and not friendly.
I resisted using gmail for quite some time after my son first discovered it (back in the days when you had to be 'invited' onto it), but once I got into it, I quickly gave up my old programme (Eudora) and went full on for gmail. I wouldn't look back - so let's hope the problems it's been having will be dealt with once and for all.
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