Gmail Goes Down
It seems every weekend, we lose another Google service or two. This time, it was Gmail. Last time, the Google cache, and before that, all of Google was inaccessible. Reports coming in from a variety of sources, including Dave Winer, Utills in the comments, and Coolzor via IM. Who else noticed this?
For some people, losing Gmail is worse than losing Google search. I can always use Yahoo or MSN Search while Google is inaccessible, but if Gmail had all my email, I’d be lost.
June 5th, 2005 at 11:43 am
not down, working here
June 5th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Yep, it was down for quite awhile yesterday, but, I did survive and the world didn’t end
I agree, it kind of sucks when it goes down because it is my primary email now, but I had confidence it would be back asap.
June 5th, 2005 at 11:58 am
yeah it was down over about an hour yesterday.
June 5th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
My email was still being forwarded to my undisclosed and secure email address location that I setup for occassions just like this. I feel vice-president-ish!
June 5th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
POP3 was having issues for a while while Gmail.com wasn’t at one point…
June 5th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Noted. ~2:40p.
http://www.johnmora.net/2005/06/04/gmail-taking-a-nap/
June 5th, 2005 at 5:10 pm
Been down all day for me. Arg. 7 hours so far. Something must really but foo’d over there.
June 5th, 2005 at 9:59 pm
Trouble in Gmail-land
Reports around the blogosphere indicate that Gmail had an outage this weekend. I was rarely connected and thus didn’t notice.
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/05/gmail-goes-down/…
June 7th, 2005 at 9:26 am
Trying to access from Thailand Tuesday night local time (the 7th? Hard to keep track here) and it’s still down for me. AAARRGGHHHH!
June 8th, 2005 at 12:11 am
Trouble in Gmail. gmail is our main e mail account. Frequent Server down affects our transaction & force us to think to shift to other web sites.
July 5th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
Gmail down right now: July 5, 2005, 9:15pm ET
July 5th, 2005 at 10:39 pm
exactly one month after this post, gmail is down again (as rich said)…i hope it goes back up soon!
July 5th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
Can’t access from Tokyo at the moment. Not good, considering I’m flying to Europe tomorrow and need the ticketing details that are only on my GMail account.
It’s the first time I’ve had problems with it, though. Shame on me for using webmail as a primary address.
But on the other side of the coin, I’d rather they stop spending $$ on upping my mail limit to 2+ gig that I doubt I will be using anytime soon, and feed that back into stability and redundancy instead.
July 15th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
We lost Gmail In Phila. PA today
July 17th, 2005 at 5:23 am
…and the lesson is, have more than two webmails (gmail, and hotmail, and yahoo, and lycos…) and cc everything important everywhere - like ticketing details (if you must.
I can’t log into Gmail at work today, yet I could at home just an hour or so ago. I hear it might be a software (IE version) issue; in addition, my home pc is only on Win98 at the mo, a world away from what these beasts at work work on.
July 17th, 2005 at 5:24 am
Yes this is IE 6.0, I’ve read elswhere that Gmail prefers IE 5.X
July 17th, 2005 at 5:34 am
Comforting to know that you can allus get through to t’ Gmail help page:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
Another possibility is to gan via proxy:
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html
clearing cache dunt allus seem to do nowt.
July 17th, 2005 at 5:36 am
…trubble is finding a cloaker that’ll let tha in, i’n't it.
July 25th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Is GMAIL down again for anyone? - July 25, 2005
July 26th, 2005 at 4:53 am
Matt, this is true… Gmail has been down (for my primary id at least) since y’day…
My secondary gmail id is working fine…
Even my primary id comes on on and off, but am unable to send attachments.
WIERD!!
August 7th, 2005 at 8:20 am
gmail down again here…my primary email too.
August 30th, 2005 at 5:47 pm
Well, since this popped up in the search, I figured I’d put a comment here saying that I’m pretty frustrated right now, because I am trying to get in touch with loved ones in the gulf coast area via text message, and am waiting for responses. And, of course, gmail is down. I guess I should’ve used my yahoo account. Guh.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
Gmail has been down since 8:30am here it’s now 3:40pm. We use it to run our real estate service through. Not Good.
August 30th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
This is amazing. Thanks to the search engines, this post has become a kind of clearing house for people whose Gmail is down. Keep ‘em coming, guys!
September 3rd, 2005 at 6:54 am
got to say gmail as well as google went down on the 2nd of sep 2005 till 3 sep 2005 without any notice.
September 26th, 2005 at 8:37 am
Gmail appears down again - server error - try again in 30 seconds (6 hours have gone by!)
October 14th, 2005 at 3:18 am
Two days down for me… aggggggggg.
I feel like killing someone.
January 31st, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Gmail has been down for 6 hours now on the east coast. I am wondering if the fact that they just started honoring all the gmail reservations has anything to do with this. Probably can not handle the traffic, which is not a good sign.
March 8th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Gmail is currently down in the U.S. is it down anywhere else?
March 8th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
it says:
Server Error
We’re sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We’re currently working to fix the problem — please try logging in to your account in a few minutes.
—–
and it has been 30 mins already!
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Well they are having serious problem whit mail. I think they must stop giving more space and think on fix this problems firts.
July 10th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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