Gmail and Google+ experienced some problem
yesterday and went down for roughly 50 minutes. A service outage on Saturday
morning briefly took down Google services including Gmail, the internet email
service which is used by hundreds of millions of people and many businesses
across the globe.
Google had first acknowledged the outage at 11am
US Pacific Time on Friday (6am Saturday AEDT), said roughly one hour later that
service had been restored for some users and it expected "a resolution for
all users in the near future".
According to the company’s Application Status
dashboard, all services are now back online which tracks the state of various
Google services.
However, It remained unclear what triggered the
outage, which affected users in Australia, India, Britain and the United
States, and prompted a stream of complaints on Twitter from users in many more
countries.
The error being seen by most users at the moment
is a (500) code problem, which just indicates that it is a temporary problem
and does not give a clue as to a cause. Judging by the response on Twitter, the
problem is currently affecting a large number of users. Google+ is also down,
although you would be forgiven for not having noticed that sooner.
The Google+ outage also affects YouTube comments under
the new system, which means those who are not loading at all on videos, also on
Hangouts across the web and mobile. Users trying to access Gmail via external
clients using either POP or IMAP protocols also are not able to get through to
their inboxes. Repeated calls to the Google’s press line also failed to go
through, and many have emailed to their press account for more info but there
is a very good reason to suspect they might not be reading that.
Google users attempting to sign on saw a
"temporary error" message and a brief note: "We are sorry but
your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We are sorry for the
inconvenience caused and suggest trying again in a few minutes."
Google calls this a “disruption” in its Gmail
service according to the Apps Status Dashboard and promises for more
information as soon as possible. Around 20 minutes later the service came back
online for most users, but then again went down. After just under an hour, it
once again seemed to be on track for users previously complaining about
connectivity.
Author : Iman Majeed
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