Saturday, May 9, 2009

Gmail Down Again !!!!!



After few weeks of relative calm, Google's Gmail seems to have encountered another outage. While details of the outage are currently unknown, going by Twitter trends and related posts, it seems this one is on a fairly large scale and has affected a sizable number of users.

Google Apps users too have not been spared. Once you login, either on Gmail on your Google Apps mail page, you're greeted with the Temporary Error (500) message. If you were already logged in whilst the outage happened, you might see the "Oops the system encountered a problem (#767) - Retrying..." message.

Gmail has been in the limelight over the past few months because of its multiple outages that were reported in the past few months. The last outage was reported on April 17, just over three weeks ago. Prior to that, there was a major outage in March and another before that in February