Gmail Crashes Across The World
February 24th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve said it repeatedly: For a number of security, privacy and accessibility reasons, I don’t trust my private, confidential data to any online service providers like Gmail and Google Apps.
But because I try to be a peaceful guy, I’m not going to say “I told you so,” even though “Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages.”
Here are the details.
Update: Google claims that the downtime was about 2 1/2 hours, while unofficial sources reported it to be closer to 4 hours. This latest downtime reportedly affected about 113 million Gmail accounts and was Gmail’s 6th downtime in the past 8 months.
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