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25 Sep 2009
Google was forced to deal with another outage on its Gmail service Thursday.
The company first gave notice of the outage at roughly 7:30 AM US Pacific time (15:30 GMT) and said that the outage affected "a small subset" of its user base. Within an hour the company had begun to restore access to users, though for some access to contacts and chat features remained offline.
By 10:00 AM the issue had been completely resolved, according to Google.
This is the second time this month in which the Gmail service has been rendered inaccessible. When the service went down 1 September, the company issued an apology to users and said that the outage was due to complications from router maintenance.
The September outages join several previous instances this year in which the Gmail service has crashed. The outages may also re-enforce sentiment among administrators that the service is not yet ready for enterprise use.
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Does Google have to be perfect to be accepted? Did Microsoft? Want to know how many Exchange outages I've experienced this year? How many times a critical Windows server has crashed, just because it was time to crash again? How many MS-hosted database servers I've seen do a face plant this month? Google's reliability is far better than Microsoft's. Period. Embrace the cloud.
Posted by: Dave 25 Sep 2009