I wonder:<p>What is the average downtime of Google Mail / calendar vs the average large corporation's exchange server?<p>Another thought- when Google calendar / mail goes down - it's likely business users blame Google - not the IT group. When a self-hosted exchange server goes down, IT is probably blamed. Leaving an incentive to move toward cloud providers just to shift the blame.
"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly.
Users of Google Calendar see 'Server Error' page intermittently."<p>from: <a href="https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847490285bf1b9e082a699bafb95f53b" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...</a>
English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portugese, Chinese (zh-Hant), Chinese (zh), Polish, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Russain, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish.<p>It's fun to ponder why they picked that order and why other popular languages didn't make the cut.
From <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html</a><p><pre><code> "Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month.
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Looks like they forgot to multiply it by 100 (at least in the definition).
Google calendar went down after my robot went to sleep. Even though WiFi (and Google Fibre) is working fine, due to the calendar outage the robot can't receive instructions to get up and continue with work.<p>Who is going to compensate? Google?
> Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot.<p>I wonder if they're getting attacked.
One of the reasons I use FastMail (<a href="https://fastmail.com" rel="nofollow">https://fastmail.com</a>) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on (<a href="http://www.fastmailstatus.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fastmailstatus.com</a>). Outages are inevitable, so having (a) information and (b) the ability to contact a human are valuable features IMO.
Google reporting "service disruption" for calendar: <a href="http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status</a>
Who knows if they actually hide tax data in the calendar. No-one [0] would suspect that. Bring down the service to dodge the taxman.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-probe-spain-idUSKCN0ZG1AC" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-probe-spain-idUSKCN...</a>
It must be due to the Spanish Inquisition today.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007940" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007940</a>