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| Posted by swoopter, 04-17-2013, 09:23 AM |
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Well it had to happen sometime ... I can already see all the cries over the news sites. |
| Posted by zoid, 04-17-2013, 09:28 AM |
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There is/was an issue with SMTP, apart from that it seems to work. |
| Posted by swoopter, 04-17-2013, 09:44 AM |
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what I see is that gmail is ok but the google apps mail accounts are all broken. |
| Posted by ScottSwezey, 04-17-2013, 10:01 AM |
Multiple Google Apps services are having partial outages:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=...=1366207172221
Personally, I had 2 of 3 of my Google Apps accounts offline earlier. The outage seemed to include admin access and email, but I did not check other functionality. One of the offline accounts is now functioning again, while the last is still not working. |
| Posted by jhadley, 04-17-2013, 10:15 AM |
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Webmail works for me - IMAP/SMTP does not |
| Posted by leckley, 04-17-2013, 10:15 AM |
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We are having no issues at all, all running like a top. |
| Posted by Patrick, 04-17-2013, 10:18 AM |
We're back up after about an hour outage with our Google Apps account which affected email to our help desk. Grumble, seems to happen once a year with Google so it's hard to get upset when it's that infrequent... still a PITA though!  |
| Posted by mdrussell, 04-17-2013, 11:09 AM |
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Originally Posted by Patrick
We're back up after about an hour outage with our Google Apps account which affected email to our help desk. Grumble, seems to happen once a year with Google so it's hard to get upset when it's that infrequent... still a PITA though!
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More like once a month... |
| Posted by leckley, 04-17-2013, 11:43 AM |
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Originally Posted by mdrussell
More like once a month...
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We rarely if ever see issues and if we do support is a 5 minute phone call away. |
| Posted by DMills, 04-17-2013, 11:45 AM |
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We never had any issues, Strange? |
| Posted by realvaluehosting, 04-17-2013, 12:08 PM |
We have several clients using Google Apps... I got many calls.
One of them told this, "Oh! I always thought that our Government can go down but Google can never be offline"  |
| Posted by cartika-andrew, 04-17-2013, 12:44 PM |
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Originally Posted by DMills
We never had any issues, Strange?
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google runs their apps in a similar manner to a CDN - their traffic is distributed - which is the only real, reliable way to deliver applications - especially large ones..
so, if the regional access area(s) you are accessing is having issues, you will be down, but, others will not.. |
| Posted by layer0, 04-17-2013, 01:58 PM |
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Originally Posted by mdrussell
More like once a month...
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Haven't noticed any problems the whole year with my Google Apps account, wasn't affected by this outage either. |
| Posted by cartika-andrew, 04-17-2013, 02:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by layer0
Haven't noticed any problems the whole year with my Google Apps account, wasn't affected by this outage either.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=goog...ient=firefox-a
they happen all the time - and Im not saying it as a negative - no one is exempt from outages.. google typically have regionally impacted outages affecting x% of their user base... completely normal. |
| Posted by layer0, 04-17-2013, 02:08 PM |
Yes, that makes complete sense, but ultimately as a single user you aren't going to be impacted each time there's an outage, as it's generally only going to be impact a very small subset of users like you said--often a different group each time. It's also very possible to not have any outage for an extended period of time.
What I'm ultimately saying is, as a Google Apps user, you're probably not going to have an outage "every month." |
| Posted by ScottSwezey, 04-17-2013, 02:10 PM |
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This is the first outage I have ever experienced with Google Apps. It affected 2 of 3 accounts I have with them. I've been using Google Apps since the early beta phase, well before it was a paid product. The service has been great, by any standard, especially considering the price. |
| Posted by cartika-andrew, 04-17-2013, 02:15 PM |
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Originally Posted by layer0
Yes, that makes complete sense, but ultimately as a single user you aren't going to be impacted each time there's an outage, as it's generally only going to be impact a very small subset of users like you said--often a different group each time. It's also very possible to not have any outage for an extended period of time.
What I'm ultimately saying is, as a Google Apps user, you're probably not going to have an outage "every month."
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completely agree its what I was saying as well !
they are the model for delivering applications in the cloud. all these people that want instant global replication of their stock joomla or wordpress installs dont understand this.. you cant really do it and the proper way to do things is to build your application to synchronize, but, deliver traffic regionally through globally distributed pops - so, when there is an issue, as there always will be, you are impacting a smaller subset of users - of course, this only really works if you have the global traffic patterns to justify it in the first place
google is the standard everyone else should strive for - and yeah, as you said, I would doubt if any single person would see monthly outages - even if over the entire platform there are indeed isolated outages monthly... |
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