Google was down


If you tried to access your Gmail yesterday about 9.30 GMT for about 2.30 hours! worldwide for consumer and business accounts too - Google Apps. This is not good news if I mention that Google Apps Premier cost 50$ per year. They guarantee the data will be accessible 99.9% of time (9 hours not working in whole year). This is not guaranteed for users, who are using free Google Apps. Google find the bright side in that problem, telling users, that they can try Gmail Offline to read and browse old e-mails. On Google blog they posted the update what happened with explanation:

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.

Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about an hour to get it all back under control.


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