Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Gmal outages

Gmail is certainly loosing some fans recently because of the increasingly frequent and disturbing service outages.
The latest such instance was reported on Tuesday.

In Google's Gmail forum, users claiming to be in Italy, Germany, France, and Taiwan, along with users from various states in the U.S., report being unable to access Gmail.

The other recent failures were :

On May 14, Gmail was down for about an hour. A limited number of users were affected by a 20 minute outage on May 8.

In February, Google apologized for a significant Gmail outage and extended account subscriptions for Google Apps Premier customers for 15 days, as per the Gmail service-level agreement. Other notable Gmail outages occurred last year in April, August, and October.

Hope Gmail bosses will find a permanent solution to these minor irritants else Gmail could loose valuable users rapidly in future.

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