Google Drive Is Down for Some Users 19
Google Drive and its suite of services -- including Google Doc and Sheet -- are facing issue, many users said Monday. DownDetector, a popular third-party service, reports it has received over 23,000 outage complaints in the last few minutes. Google has acknowledged the issue.
This is it! (Score:4, Funny)
Plagues, locusts, and Google Drive. Just as the Bible predicted. We're all doomed!
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Plagues, locusts, and Google Drive. Just as the Bible predicted. We're all doomed!
Well there was the late Y2K (Y2K20) problem the other day, but the Satan-worshipers (they use DAEMONS!) weren't ready to go so they fixed it. And there's the upcoming 2038 Linux problem, but no one doing anything about that besides updating to a longer bit-clock.
I didn't realize the Bible had a technical section. It must not be in the King James release. OH! -- I found it, just look for the BOFH addendum. [theregister.co.uk]
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Where does it say GD in the Bible? I only see GOD. :P
Do the needful... (Score:2)
...and please kindly revert to pre-update snapshot.
This sentence is facing issue (Score:2)
The summary has issue.
Unpossible! (Score:3, Funny)
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How do we know it is down temporarily, and not just shut down for good? This is google.
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When was the last time you can say that it has been down? To be honest, I would like to see a history of it's down time. I never remember it from before.
I've got a spreadsheet keeping track of that on my Google Drive. Let me just pull that up for.....oh.
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Re:Unpossible! (Score:4, Insightful)
When was the last time you can say that it has been down? To be honest, I would like to see a history of it's down time. I never remember it from before.
Partial outages aren't that uncommon. I'd say it's on the order of once per month or so that some small fraction of users experience problems. It looks like [google.com] Drive had another partial outage just five days ago. It's almost never more than a small percentage, though. I'm sure far less than the percentage of people whose computers are broken at any given moment.
Re:Unpossible! (Score:5, Informative)
That is what it means to be a google bet tester.
they also split stuff into differnt zone (Score:2)
they also split stuff into differnt zones so it can be an issue local to one DC or area that only hit's some users. Or some group of uses are seeing slow downs due to an HA rebuild.
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I actually don't really use my Google drive that often. so, I may not have noticed it being down.
It very likely wasn't, for you. I use Google Drive heavily, and I never notice it being down either, except when someone tells me "Oh, Drive is down for X thousand people (of tens/hundreds of millions) today".
Humorous day (Score:2)
What's hilarious is watching the COO -- who we all utterly despise -- frantically scream at me and my department to "DO SOMETHING!" and "FIND OUT WHAT'S WRONG!" and "JUST FIX IT!" He wouldn't believe me when I told him there was nothing we could do because there was nothing broke at any of our data centers, WAN, etc. So I sent him various articles on how Google Drive/Docs was down for vast swathes of humanity.
Not that it mattered of course. This is the same asshat who's pushing for us to ditch our exten
Re:Humorous day (Score:5, Funny)
This is when you pull up random Internet articles in your web browsers and meaningless code in your editors. Then you goof off and, if he asks what you're doing, say "I'm recompiling the hypertext JQuery stack to bypass the SSL certificate style sheet corruption. It's a long process, unfortunately. Also, I keep getting data source domain errors which means I'll need to employ a ROT-13 complex matrix. I'm working as hard as I can on this."
Let it burn (Score:1)