Feb 28 2009
Google Mail Outage
Once again, there’s been an outage at Google, this time rather than labeling all sites as malware, it was GMail, the free web-based mail system from the internet behemoth that stopped providing personal and business users with its services. Is this Google playing with our emotions, withholding favors and giving us a taste of what things will be like when it’s gone? Perhaps.
The system seems to be back online now. GMail and Google Docs were affected although Google Reader and Google Calendar stayed up all the while, it seems.
There’s a lesson to be learned here, though, especially for businesses that rely on Google’s systems for their day to day operations – don’t!
If you’re relying on a single company like Google, with no contingency or backup for your email, then you could lose out should there ever be a longer-standing fail than today’s GMail outage.
While the outage seemed to be short-lived, some bloggers and twitter users are still reporting problems with mobile access.
