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Google Outage

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52 pointsarunagarwal35 comments

For a second, thanks to that headline, I thought this was a new service from Google (and frankly, I was excited for it).

In a way, it is.

'Helps you spend more time away from the computer, doing the things you really care about!'

Sign me up :)

You probably just spoiled Google's April fools for next year.

I assume the downvote means "fuck you now you really spoiled it". Thanks google employee ;)

If not, please comment what's wrong, then I might be able to post better comments in the future.

Well, I initially read it as Google Outrage. I wonder if that would be a better product name. ;-)

Good name for Google's complaints system.

Google Outage: When you need to kick a site offline, Google now provides the most powerful network for all your nefarious packet flooding needs. Don't be too evil. Wink! Wink!

I mean, Google Outage: When you need to know if a site is offline!

It's oddly amusing that a similar outage occurred exactly one year ago, 17 April 2012: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/17/2954949/gmail-outage-april...

> Google Documents service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.

So many words for "we're still working on it."

My hosting provider had some serious connection issues moments ago, and I'm seeing some major latency and packet loss at L3: http://internethealthreport.com/

Anyone have any insight?

Well that's an unfortunate coincidence. They only just sent out this email a couple of days back: http://i.imgur.com/yZOdKTb.png

To be fair, they only quoted 3 9's and I doubt they'll lose that because of this

uptime percentages are a useless measure

How so?

> uptime percentages are a useless measure

Uptime is only useless if you don't care about high availability. Many startups don't, but Google sure does.

It depends. You can look back at a year and say "We had 100% uptime". You can also make an assurance that you have %90 uptime, %99, 99.9, or even %99.99 and beyond which all actually carry a meaning about load balancing, fall over, and redundancy.

According to the mail outage info, it's only affecting .007% of users anyway. Pay the SLA penalty for those guys and move on.

You gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.

Google is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.

I'm pretty sure he was joking

Maybe it was sarcasm all the way down?

I hope not.. If it takes more than a couple of minutes for you to figure out how to plug in a cable, I would wonder why google let you in the building

If it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.

Both apps- and non-apps working fine here in the UK.

From the status page: "This issue is affecting less than 0.007% of the Google Mail user base"

Maybe that's true in the usual way we'd understand that percentage (the percentage of total users subject to this particular issue). But based on the fact that all seven of my Google accounts were inaccessible via IMAP, I'm wondering if they only had 0.007% of users fail in their attempt to access the service during that window, while many other potentially-affected users were simply blissfully ignorant of the issue.

The UK University I work at is experiencing problems with IMAP connections and intermittent problems with Google Drive. I believe other UK Universities are also experiencing similar problems.

Web access to the same services seems OK though.

Drive and Docs are down now!

Of my 10 google apps for domain accounts, 9 were down. They seem to have all trickled back online over the past 30 minutes.

Looks like things are coming back online gradually.

I was expecting a blogpost about it with explanation like Cloudflare always has. But no, Google's not like that I guess.

Experiencing problems with IMAP connections!

My university google accounts were down earlier. They're back now though.

Google Groups also failing.

Something something rimshot.

Ironically, Google Reader has been fine.

heh, as I was first scanning the HN homepage, I read this as "Google Outrage" and immediately thought it was talking about something like the scroogled campaign.

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