Gmail is currently not online in Germany

It's loooooading here, in France.

==> 502 Server Error

in italy too... :-(

Finland, error 502

Indonesia, Server Error

Ruh-roh! I can't get it eitherrrr! Hmmm....hasn't this happened before?

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/137833.html

Gmail down in France too.
Err 502.

Same error.

Down in Australia too :(

Down in Lithuania too

Same in China, same for google apps mail...

its down everywhere... follow it...

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail

http://www.twitscoop.com/

India too

Same in Belgium, for normal Gmail as well as for apps...

Use POP3 or IMAP.

If this is a failure due to anything other than some crazy-awesome upgrade, i will be extremely disappointed.

down in Nederlands

THX Ionut, that seems to work indeed...

It's back...

Sort of back . . . One of my accounts has loaded into an earlier state, and the other is still trying to load. I'm in the UK.

Not back for me.

in Inida too...

slow here, and some times dead, India

"We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by February 24, 2009 6:30 AM PST detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change." http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-Alerts-en/browse_thread/thread/6f26438e449894da#

I think the issues have been solved almost completely. Gmail is pretty slow, though.

tweets about gmail down: about 220 a minute... (thx to lvb.net)

small subset? who wasn't affected?

Still down in Hungary :(

502 in Brazil too :-(

down also in manila philippines

Getting slooow loading on IGoogle and GDocs as well in my case.

It's coming back slowly, hang in there!

> small subset? who wasn't affected?

I guess anyone who wasn't trying to access Gmail...? :-D

up!

thank god its already accessible =)

I love the Twitterfall: http://twitterfall.com/Gmail It's mesmerising.

PS switch it to 10 tweets/second. It's even cooller, though you can't read anything.

reminds me of having to backup my gmail messages...

still down in ukraine and russia :(

cant get anywhere in the UK

Finland still down

It's been down for hours here in the Philippines.

The outage really created a huge impact from Google users resulting a huge thread in Gmail's Google Groups @ http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Logging-In-en/browse_thread/thread/921824e80c55c11d/ec26e8197a9734fa#ec26e8197a9734fa and a two-star rated almost official statement from the Gmail team made by hundreds of users @ http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-Alerts-en/browse_thread/thread/6f26438e449894da

Back there in China

Irlande, nil pointe

same here in poland Your users may be experiencing issues accessing Google Apps services- As of 1:30:00 AM PST on February 24, 2009
Services impacted: Email
Our team is working quickly to resolve this situation as soon as possible. We will continue to post updates here as we learn more. This is in google apps

its Down (page not Opening) in India Also!!!!

Finally. Gmail is back. Nothing new, except for an updated version of Offline Gmail (which is 2.0). with no more annoying Task tip.

I hope they've tested something while Gmail is down... :)

where's it back??? nothings back here same down :((((((((

still not working here in France

"with no more annoying Task tip." ==> I bet the bug comes from that. ;-)

just listeing to irish radio (internet) – they said it was back in ireland.

still down in the uk.

"just listeing to irish radio (internet) – they said it was back in ireland."

Nope, still down here (Ireland)

Still Down in India

It seems apps is up, normal gmail not?

Just got logged in in Finland, everything seems OK

now is ok

Back up here (UK) but really slow :(

Great. Now I'm getting the Google "Sorry" page:

http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/

Even digg gets the blues....
http://i40.tinypic.com/vfkutx.png

Funnily enough, downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports "it's just you, gmail.com is up".

Ok, it's back in Ireland

While logging out from Gmail (whenever working) is throwing this error
http://sorry.google.com/sorry/

back in ukraine but veryyyyyyyy slow

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-gmail-outage.html

I've read my reader just now...

and coming from TechCrunch: "Thousands of Twitter messages carrying the words “gmail” or “gfail”"

Google should be aware enough cause it's affecting a lot of users... even their flagging of malware in every search results also made a huge impact.

But as of now... Google posted their official statements and updates @ Gmail blog, help center and Gmail groups.

I'd bet that this big outage is related to GrandCentral integration. That's the only foreseable major change to the Gmail infrastructure I can see.

And interestingly enough, hello.com is down as well. I now bet that a relaunch of GrandCentral as hello.com is close. Let's say on the 1st of April for instance, at the time Gmail leaves Beta.

I withdraw the comment on the new code deployment thing. They wouldn't deploy the same code base on Apps and Generic Gmail at the same time. Or host them on the same servers so that an infinite loop wouldn't snow ball.
Or...?

its Back in India

https://mail.google.com/support

has details

i.e. Status Update pane

Hmm, very cognitive post.
Is this theme good unough for the Digg?

covered at
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-Alerts-en/browse_thread/thread/6f26438e449894da#
too (via /.)

The reason was:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-todays-gmail-outage.html

"....
This morning, there was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. This typically causes no disruption because accounts are simply served out of another data center.
...."

Have just receive such an email. Nice:)
Dear Google Apps customer,

Between approximately 9AM to 12PM GMT / 1AM to 4AM PST on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, some Google Apps mail users were unable to access their accounts. The actual outage period varied by user because the recovery process was executed in stages. No data was lost during this time. The root cause of the problem was a software bug that caused an unexpected service disruption during the course of a routine maintenance event. The root cause of this unexpected service disruption has been found and fixed.

Additional Details

A few months ago, new software was implemented to optimize data center functionality to make more efficient use of Google's computing resources, as well as to achieve faster system performance for users.

Google's software is designed to allow maintenance work to be done in data centers without affecting users. User traffic that could potentially be impacted by a maintenance event is directed towards another instance of the service. On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, an unexpected service disruption occurred during a routine maintenance event in a data center. In this particular case, users were directed towards an alternate data center in preparation for the maintenance tasks, but the new software that optimizes the location of user data had the unexpected side effect of triggering a latent bug in the Google Mail code. The bug caused the destination data center to become overloaded when users were directed to it, and which in turn caused multiple downstream overload conditions as user traffic was automatically shifted in response to the failures. Google engineers acted quickly to re-balance load across data centers to restore users' access. This process took some time to complete.

The recently launched Apps Status Dashboard includes greater detail on this February 24th incident, including actions we are taking to continually improve performance. For a direct link to this Incident Report, visit http://www.google.com/appsstatus/ir/1nsexcr2jnrj1d6.pdf (English only).

For ongoing service performance information, please access the Apps Status Dashboard at http://www.google.com/appsstatus (English only).

We are very sorry for the inconvenience that this incident has caused. We understand that system problems are inconvenient and frustrating for customers who have come to rely on our products to do many different things. One of Google's core values is to focus on the user, so we are working very hard to make improvements to our technology and operational processes so as to prevent service disruptions. We are confident that we will achieve continuous improvements quickly and persistently.

We will be extending a full 15-day SLA credit to all affected Google Apps Premier customers for the month of February. This credit will be applied to customer accounts automatically so there's no action needed on the part of administrators.

Once again, we apologize for the impact that this incident has caused. Thank you very much for your continued support.

Sincerely,

The Google Apps Team

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Google, Inc.
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Gopgle's compensation price is: 2.5USD (1,5 EUR) per Gmail user

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10172023-2.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561652440078567.html

John Naught at guardian.co.uk suggests that the gmail and amazon glitches may reveal problems in scaling cloud computing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/01/gmail-outage-cloud-computing