Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

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US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.<p>I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.

Interestingly, GMail has failed twice in the last few weeks since they removed it from beta. Before that, I can only remember one large-scale outage over the previous few <i>years</i>.

Sometimes its pretty nice to be the end user of a big problem.<p>I feel sorry for those poor sysadmins

All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html</a>

Even Google's internal corporate mail is down. Yikes.

Huh. GMail is down for me, but GMail's IMAP is still working. I didn't even notice.

I wonder what the load on that little machine that's spitting out 502's is right now...

Coincidentally, their "Go Google" billboard campaign just ended today.

No gmail at work = Its lunchtime for me. Hurray Google for naturally putting me on break!

Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3.<p>It's not all that bad :)

I haven't had an issue all day, till you guys mentioned it :) Down on the east coast 4:02pm<p>You can login here. <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&#38;passive=true&#38;rm=false&#38;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwm%26ui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&#38;bsv=zpwhtygjntrz&#38;scc=1&#38;ltmpl=default&#38;ltmplcache=2&#38;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&#3...</a>

<a href="http://www.google.com/ig" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/ig</a> shows me signed-in in chat-mode. Can anyone explain why so ?

Strange, I just did a search for movie show times in my area earlier and just now, and it seems that some cinemas are missing.<p>The timing lines up exactly with the gmail outage.<p>Since those theaters have always been listed in the movie showtime search as long as I can remember, this could be part of a larger service outage. What else is down that they aren't telling us?

Wow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.

i'd like to note that i can access gmail through the igoogle gmail widget, and just got, read and responded to a fresh email through it.<p>can't access gmail through any other means.<p>thought it might be useful for everyone to know and give it a shot.

Hah just checked HN while waiting for gmail to log me in...

Australia down as well ... was just about to click on an exciting mail when .. pop !! you are now accessing offline mail :(<p><i>waits while twiddles thumb</i>

"We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 5:16:00"<p>Hit refresh at 5:16 and it's back up. That was pretty impressive.

IMAP and POP3 are working fine

Just tried. It's back up for me in Washington, DC, USA

Gmail 502 error from San Francisco 12:52 pm PDT.

ping mail.xx.com PING ghs.l.google.com (72.14.203.121) 56(84) bytes of data.<p>Customize URL in Google App/email is broken :(

Back up here in Portland, OR.

Even down here in Pakistan ;(

On the 28th day - we crash.

Back up for me!

Brazil is down

- Darling, do you remember the day when Google was down?<p>- You mean the day 9 months before our son was born?<p>===<p>Enjoy it while it lasts.

502 Server Error<p>[ $date -u =&#62; Tue Sep 1 19:59:05 UTC 2009 ]<p>#fail

And that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!