Comments on: Great GMail Outtage of 2008

By: Tracie

Tracie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:48:36 +0000

I agree George. Although some people claim they ARE paying for the business version. Who knows though.

Ruben, they really should! I can’t believe how long they complained. A little downtime is normal for the internet… people should be used to it by now.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:54:03 +0000

People should stop complaining about the downtime. It has been a blessing that Gmail has had minimal Downtime in years past.
I hope we never lose this service as a free service. Imagine that having to pay for such a reliable product. So stop the whining.

By: George

George — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:59:09 +0000

GMail has become my primary email address (I have two) but I also have my ISP/”Yahoo!” email addresses.

I didn’t really notice that much. Yeah, OK, some email got delayed. My box wasn’t purged, and my contacts are still where I left them. So I don’t really see what the fuss is about.

As for those folks using gMail as their “office” email… ahem… unless you’re paying Google to provide business or enterprise-level email services, stop it with the crying. Email is like anything else in this world – if you want uptime SLA’s, you gotta pay for them. Otherwise, drop to your backup, grab the phone, and conduct business like we did back in the 80’s, before the Internet got so ubiquitous.

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:16:13 +0000

I only use Gmail for two things. I use Gmail as an alternate contact email for Jag support. I use Gmail to store daily crone jobs for my blog.

In my experience when a mail server goes down you don’t loose email. it only delays the delivery of the email to your inbox.

By: Tracie

Tracie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:43:47 +0000

Dave, I’m guilty of relying on technology, probably a bit too much. See my “geek girl post“. If my technology fails, I survive just fine without it, though.

Margo, yes, as far as I know Google is still in beta. They are still sporting the beta logo.

Chris, I agree it would be a lot more inconvenient if you were using gmail for office communication, but there are always phones to fall back on in critical situations.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:06:29 +0000

Well, a lot of us use gmail as our office email. That’s a much bigger interruption than not hearing from Aunt Sally.

But I agree, Gmail has caused me a whole lot less issues as a business email product than any office server based mail I’ve ever had.

yeah for Google.

By: Margot

Margot — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:59:20 +0000

Besides, isn’t Google still in beta?

By: david donohue

david donohue — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:14:09 +0000

thanks for the apology but it didnt affect me.i just cant believe the whiners out there that rely on technology so much for thier daily lives. good thing the global positioning satellites didnt go down as well they might not find there way to the local starbucks for thier grande latte enemas. when i learned to sail we had this instrument called a sextant and i still use it for navigation. now theres the gps system which is very cool but like our email can go down as well. just pointing out there are inherent problems with relying solely on technology.