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System-Wide Outage Strikes Google Gmail, Affects Millions

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 1, 2009 - 10:48am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Gmail, the Web-based email service of Google (NASD: GOOG), experienced a system-wide outage on Tuesday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts.

The service, used by nearly 150 million users a month, began experiencing problems early Tuesday morning, and still remained down by mid-afternoon, with users receiving the message, "Server Error.

The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds."

Google acknowledged the issue in several status messages throughout the day, but could not offer a specific time for a resolution. Google's other services appeared unaffected.

Update: The service now appears to be back online.

 

Related Links:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en

Published in DMW Daily, September 1, 2009
tags: Google | Gmail |



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