quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: See, this is why I have my own mail server.
If i had to bet on their server or yours being up at any given time, I'd bet on theirs.
Also, the servers are fine, just the web interface is down.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Accckk!! My internet has been down for 3 days. I finally got connected about 5 minutes ago and now g-mail is down. Acckkkk!!!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:If i had to bet on their server or yours being up at any given time, I'd bet on theirs.
Interestingly, you'd lose that bet. My mail server has been down once, for twenty minutes, in six years. But I know what you mean. *grin*
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I never realized it was down. I have had my Gmail window open all day...
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
FG!
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Mine's back now. Everyone else too?
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
quote:Originally posted by Farmgirl: I never realized it was down. I have had my Gmail window open all day...
Me, too. I also have facebook chat, Skype, hotmail and my work email open, so I never noticed I was all alone.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Farmgirl: I never realized it was down. I have had my Gmail window open all day...
Me too. And Outlook usually yelps if Gmail gives it flak, but not a peep today. And I was definitely at my desk -- I had a phone conference from 1:30-2:00.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
quote:See, this is why I have my own mail server.
Now, see, this is one of the reasons why I'd like to start my own email server. I have most of the knowledge and the hardware...
Say, out of curiosity, what's your email server built from, Tom? Software-wise, at least?
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson:
quote:If i had to bet on their server or yours being up at any given time, I'd bet on theirs.
Interestingly, you'd lose that bet. My mail server has been down once, for twenty minutes, in six years. But I know what you mean. *grin*
Really? That's the best server record I've seen...ever, actually, in any field and for a company of any size.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Really? My place of employment hasn't had a minute of email downtime in seven years, although we have had a couple delays (once due to a mistaken Hotmail blacklisting that really, really ticked us off). Off-site redundancy usually deals with the usual service issues, especially during updates.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
That's a very common failure mode for high-load distributed web applications.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:IMAP/POP access and mail processing continued to work normally because these requests don't use the same routers.
Ah! So this is why I not only didn't notice but thought the first person who mentioned this to me was crazy. I mostly access Gmail by IMAP at work.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:Originally posted by fugu13: That's a very common failure mode for high-load distributed web applications.
It's also how rolling blackouts happen with power distribution.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
We had almost a full day of downtime only 2 years ago, at my workplace. There wasn't much I could do, even though I work in the IT office, because the e-mail server is someone else's responsibility. I think it was a RAID failure that brought the server down, but troubleshooting was leading the techs on a different wild goose chase. Fun times, it was not.
Since then, we're completely replaced that server's hardware, updated our backup systems, and (ahem) completely replaced one job position in the office.
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Where did it go?!?!
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