Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage 150
First time accepted submitter Landy DeField writes "Tried accessing your Gmail today? You may be faced with 'Temporary Error (500)' error message. Tried to get more detailed information by clicking on the 'Show Detailed Technical Info' link which loads a single line... 'Numeric Code: 5.' Clicked on the App status dashboard link. All were green except for the Admin Control Panel / API. Took a glance 2 minutes ago and now, Google mail and Google Drive are orange and Admin Control Panel / API is red. Look forward to the actual ...'Detailed Technical Info' on what is going on."
The apps dashboard confirms that there is a partial outage of many Google Apps. The Next Web ran a quick article about this, and in the process discovered there was an outage on the same date last year.
Re:In the mean time... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds like you have a comparatively high number of potential points of failure compared to the cloud services.
Re:In the mean time... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the real benefit with Google Apps. When Google Apps is down...I don't have to do anything! Life is good.
Re:Oh well (Score:4, Insightful)
Because in-house servers NEVER go down.
The only difference between in house and cloud-based email in this case is who the fingers get pointed at when the fecal matter hits the air conveyance device.
Re:In the mean time... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
It might make one feel like they're taking a more "active" role in the problem, but you're likely to spend as much time fixing your homegrown solution as Google is fixing Gmail. With the cloud solution when something goes wrong though SOMEONE ELSE fixes it.
Besides - Gmail actually has an "offline" mode available for Chrome users. For those really that worried about downtime they can use that.
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Re:In the mean time... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
Alternatively, if something breaks in Google's servers, it gets immediate attention by people who know a hell of a lot more than I do about maintaining a server. And things are multiply redundant, making something breaking comparatively unlikely.