(UPDATE) Gmail goes down
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UPDATE: Google apologizes for the outage that hit users worldwide. But it didn’t say what caused it, a recent entry on its official blog said.
Excerpt:
If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email.
We’re working very hard to solve the problem and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience. Those users in the US and UK who have enabled Gmail offline through Gmail Labs should be able to access their inbox, although they won’t be able to send or receive emails.
GMAIL users saw their accounts inaccessible late Tuesday (Manila time).
The Gmail service says it is experiencing a “502 server error,” which means that the server is experiencing congestion or has “too many connections, high traffic.”
Helloluis observes on Twitter: “Watching the #gmail complaints stream thru http://tinyurl.com/dbvtv9 A bit like watching a crowd around a car accident.”
A few minutes after Helloluis tweets: ” I don’t think I’ll ever get tired to seeing thousands of tweets on the same subject pouring in over the span of a few minutes. #gmail #fail.”
There is still no explanation on the Gmail blog as of this writing.
