If you were unable to access your Gmail account yesterday morning, you weren’t the only one. It turns out that Gmail had a massive outage that affected Gmail users all around the world.
Gmail site reliability manager Acacio Cruz wrote yesterday afternoon that “If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 9:30am GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email.”
Cruz offered reassurance, and said “We’re working very hard to solve the problem and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience.”
It is unknown just how many people and businesses were affected by the outage, but when Google itself acknowledges that “consumer and businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email,” you know that it’s a big number.
Once Gmail was back up, another Google exec explained “Many of our users had difficulty accessing Gmail today. The problem is now resolved and users have had access restored. We know how important Gmail is to our users, so we take issues like this very seriously, and we apologise for the inconvenience.”
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HAVE JUST LOST OVER 5000 EMAILS
ITS A TOTAL DISASTER
FROM 2005 TO 2008
CAN ANY BODY HELP
in Chrome, my entire gmail page is white. Nothing. Search, YouTube, Maps, Translate, everything else is there. Oddly, when I pop over to Explorer and log on.. voila, it’s there.
I remember clicking on something accidentally about ad blocking…
can anyone help me? I prefer my Chrome.
S
My first chunk of e-mail disappeared last March – gone forever. I decided I should write down e-mail address for some little used contacts in case it happened again and found that my oldest e-mail has also disappeared. The problem is obviously not corrected and e-mail is completely unreliable. It is kind of joke when you see the message that you are only using 1% of your e-mail space – that would be because the system eats e-mails randomly.