What s wrong with gmail and has it been fixed?
Gmail is back whats wrong with gmail and gmail status. Gmail seems to be back again after outage for several hours. When it went out initially I thought that may be it was caused due to some problem in my browser cache. But then several people asked me the same thing and I realized that I was not the only person to have faced the problem and in fact Gmail was really down. With the fact that Google and Gmail have become such an important part of our lives that even a few hours without it gives great pain. It is also because of the fact that due to Gmail functioning many people use it for their official purposes also. With unlimited storage, this is the email service that everyone seems to be using right now. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. As of July 2009 it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Ap
New Delhi, Sept 2, 2009: Gmail is back whats wrong with gmail and gmail status. Gmail seems to be back again after outage for several hours. When it went out initially I thought that may be it was caused due to some problem in my browser cache. But then several people asked me the same thing and I realized that I was not the only person to have faced the problem and in fact Gmail was really down. With the fact that Google and Gmail have become such an important part of our lives that even a few hours without it gives great pain. Sources: http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?
Google’s Gmail suffered a worldwide crash for nearly two hours Tuesday after it took some servers offline for maintenance, a widespread outage the California-based company called a “Big Deal” in a blog explaining the service failure. “We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there’s a problem with the service,” wrote Ben Treynor, vice president of engineering for Gmail, in a blog post late Tuesday. Google said the outage occurred when it took some of its mail servers offline for routine maintenance. Recent structural changes were already placing a heavy load on its routing servers, which direct Web queries to the right Gmail servers for response, and the extra burden caused an overload. The outage was traced “within seconds,” Treynor wrote, but the 100 minutes of downtime was an enormous inconvenience for Gmail’s approximate 150 million users, who were shut out of the service beginning at about 1 p.m. EDT. Go
