Gmail: down
Written on 11th August 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Apple received a lot of criticism lately for the .Mac to MobileMe transition. But Google today demonstrated that online email can be tough. Gmail has been down for a while now with no information except an error message.
If you need to get to your email you can still access the HTML basic version of Gmail. Even the professional Gmail app is down for the first time in 1,5 years. The Google Calendar and other Google apps seem to be working at this moment.

Oh well…
UPDATED: The 502 Service Temporarily Overloaded message is gone. Gmail is up again. We can all relax again…
UPDATED 2: Google’s official statement: “We feel your pain, and we’re sorry“.




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By Haas on Aug 12, 2008
that was scary but where back!!!
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By Ton uit Utrecht on Aug 12, 2008
i encountered this some 3 weeks ago also; which may point to the beginning of the end, the total melt down of google serverism, the collaps of the internet… imagine! ;-)
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By Vidhu on Aug 12, 2008
There is an error in this sentence , please correct it .
“If you need to get to your email you ‘an’ still access the HTML basic version of Gmail.”
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By drghazy on Oct 6, 2008
hhhhhhhhhh kkkk ee
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