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Google offering 15 days of free service for paying users...
(old news - 06:17PM Wednesday Feb 25 2009)
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Though most people in the United States were busy sleeping, blogger hearts are a'flutter over the fact that Google GMail and other application users experienced a four hour outage yesterday. According to a Google blog post, the outage was caused by a "routine maintenance event" gone wrong in one of Google's European data centers, somehow creating a cascading failure at one data center after another. According to the Associated Press, Google is handing out 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and anyone else who pays for an expanded version of Google services (a value of $2.05 per user).

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inferno

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Who cares...

Its just a bunch of little kids on their computers in their parent's basement...

O wait... never mind... I was thinking of the DailyKOS...
clecssuck

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Re: Who cares...

How many bloggers will blame this on George W. Bush?
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Re: Who cares...

said by clecssuck See Profile :

How many bloggers will blame this on George W. Bush?
Why blame *this* on him when there are so many other things to blame him for?

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Isn't that why you have a blog, to cry? Anymore at least...

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Re: Who cares...

These days it seems half the people on the net treat blogs the same way they treat news---- as ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND FACT... *****IF***** it agrees with their pre-existing ideology, that is. If not, well, it's just complete garbage like the rest of the news they don't like.
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Re: Who cares...

said by KrK See Profile :

These days it seems half the people on the net treat blogs the same way they treat news---- as ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND FACT... *****IF***** it agrees with their pre-existing ideology, that is. If not, well, it's just complete garbage like the rest of the news they don't like.
EXACTLY.

I could not have said it better myself.
This FACT should be taught in schools across America as part of a twenty-first century approach to journalism.

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Just imagine if it were a longer outage....They would end up like these guys..

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpU0RxqZkqM

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Re: Who cares...

I can see the Bitter from my house
/let's talk about how the mighty god Google went down for four hours please

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speaks for itself
said by odreian615 See Profile :

I can see the Bitter from my house
/let's talk about how the mighty god Google went down for four hours please
But image posting for nothing but a political pissing contest is so fun!
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said by odreian615 See Profile :

let's talk about how the mighty god Google went down for four hours please
Even god needed a day of rest, so what's wrong with google taking a few hours? Amirite?

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For an outage, it was timed pretty well

I was under the impression the outage was during the middle of the night and into the very early morning.

I remember having some issues but assumed it was localized to the Cox / Cox Phoenix shutdown routing and the huge mess that caused down where I live.

Jeez, first the BGP routing issue which nearly takes down the net, Conficker, and now Google having outages... Tis been a weird week.
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Re: For an outage, it was timed pretty well

I have to say, that Conficker is a real pain in the ass.

hopeflicker
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ummm...

it's called BETA for a reason, right?

Smith6612
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Re: ummm...

Yup, and pretty much everything Google has is in beta :P

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bummer

like everyone else has said who cares. everything has a outage at one time or other.

just because its goggle doesnt mean it F***ING gold u know.

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Re: bummer

said by hayabusa3303 See Profile :

just because its goggle doesnt mean it F***ING gold u know.
Actually, because it is Google, it IS Gold Well at least the shares are, anyway
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Users need to be prepared

I don't think it's a big deal. It happens with any free or paid service eventually. Anyone who is really relying on GMail 24x7x365 for things so important that a 4 hour outage is a serious concern should really be examining the logic of relying on any one particular service so much. Keep a local store of your e-mail & contacts and have access to another mail provider for emergencies.

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Re: Users need to be prepared

said by jsz0 See Profile :

Anyone who is really relying on GMail 24x7x365 for things so important that a 4 hour outage is a serious concern should really be examining the logic of relying on any one particular service so much.
The problem with that thought is that Google offers this as a fee based subscription service as well for business, government, and educational institutions. And they offer a SLA behind the service.

You are right though that for basic gmail this was not a big deal and every email provider has hiccups, but a 4 hour outage for a paid service is a pretty big one.

FrostyMelon

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Re: Users need to be prepared

15 days of credit for a four hour outage, that's not bad at all.

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Three Nines Reliability

So with this outage, they are at 99.95% uptime (three nines) for the year

Trinijoy
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Wow...

OMG God save the queen 4 hours.
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Google, Gmail, Groups and Blogger is the new KING of SPAM

99% of the porn spam I receive links to a google groups page and comes from a Gmail account.

I hope they are happy.

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Re: Google, Gmail, Groups and Blogger is the new KING of SPAM

what service on google do you have to pay for?

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4 hours of no spam!!

Well,
At least I didn't have to keep going to sign in just to delete the spam, during that time!!
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I wonder if this is what happened to my Gmail on my G1

Had an issues where my G1 Google phone did not update its email since midnight on the 23rd and kept giving me a sync issue for about 10 hours. If I went to the web Gmail, it worked fine.

CanadianIron

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Re: I wonder if this is what happened to my Gmail on my G1

i need to learn to read before posting.
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