Yes, Gmail went down for one hour (or there abouts) today. And you what that means– sheer PANIC. Check out this tidbit from the Dallas Morning News:
Apparently, according to the site Is It Everyone or Just Me, Gmail’s working for some people, but it hasn’t been working for me for the past 45 minutes. I’m getting a 502 error. Victor says he’s getting the same error.
Anyone out there experiencing the same thing or can you guys get into your accounts?
I know Gmail had some problems last week. Perhaps they haven’t been completely fixed or perhaps my Gmail account just feels as listless as I do.
Update 1: Other bloggers are reporting similar problems with Gmail, so it seems we do have a major outage. But Google isn’t saying what’s wrong with the service or when it will be back up. The most recent entry on the official Gmail blog is August 4 post on how to customize your Web clips, which is interesting but not particularly relevant to the problem hand.
Update 2: I would e-mail Google to ask for an explanation, but can’t for obvious reasons. If anyone from Google wants to comment or direct us to a link that explains the outage, please do. I’ll post the link up in the body of the entry here where people can see it.
Update 3: If you’re desperate to read your subject lines or compose a message, go to m.gmail.com, the mobile version of Gmail. Clicking on the subjects will get you a server error.
Update 4: It’s back up for me. Anyone still down?
E-mailLuckily for the people down in Dallas (who would have most certainly busted out, guns blazing, if the situation hadn’t righted itself, "Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!") and for the world at large, Gmail is back. So wipe away your tears, friends, and put away the sunscreen– you don’t have to go outside.
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