Nerve Center Fried, Nerves Too

Boy, I picked the wrong couple of days to blog about the value of Gmail, eh? I have been locked out since early this morning. It's been down for ours and lots of bloggers are outraged. Google hopefully will address the issue on their blog - at some point.

Comments

[Brian Graves]

I have been in all day with NO problems. **Knocks on wood**

[franticindustries]

It works for me without problems, so don't worry too much. Some nice tricks you have in the article, too.

[Mia D]

Same here, no problems with Gmail...yet. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Has anyone had problems accessing their Google calendar? I've been struggling with it for last few days. Thx.

[Ed Illig]

Perhaps your Gmail post sent half the world there to investigate, rocking a server or two in the process. Now that might be construed as great news in some circles—at least for a time.

Incidentally, no problems here with either Google calendar or Gmail.

[Ed Illig]

Semantic comment edit: Hopefully not so much great news as big news.

[Kris Karkoski]

Surprising to hear this since I haven't lost my email at all today.

[Steve Hall]

Ah, the beauties of desktop email:-)

[Chris R.]

I have read of other bloggers complaining of the same problem.

It would be nice for Gmail to provide a way to backup your emails so you don't have to worry whenever something like this occurs.

[caksi]

never worry.

your focus was good enough even when the beta gmail went bad for some hours

[Ricardo Niederberger Cabral]

One word: backup

[Andrew Denny]

This reminds us that Gmail - and other web email - is an eggs-in-one-basket solution. It really needs an offline component.

[chrisco]

AdWords has been down for me for at least he past 8 or more hours. Figures this stuff would come at the height of the Google love-in that's gone into frenzy mode over the past couple of weeks. Just like the stock market, when last week there was a peak of bullishness confidence and low and behold, a peak is made (probably the peak of the bull market that was in its fifth year. Cheers! -chrisco

[Stacey Alatzas]

It appears Gmail isn't the only Google service stumbling in this week when the company is attempting to convince businesses to embrace its Google Apps. It looks like Google's Blogger service has locked a good number of its users' blogs (including my hyper-local news blog www.belairnewsandviews.blogspot.com) all sometime after 9 p.m. on Feb. 28, on the grounds it suspected them of being spam. Blogger promises to have a human review each locked blog in less than a business day. We're now into our second day of the shut down with no end in sight. From reading the Blogger Help Group message boards, it looks to me like spam may not have been the root of the problem. A student blogger writes there that he uses his blog for school work, but won't be relying on Blogger for this any longer. A professor writes that he uses Blogger for his student's assignments and the 2-day shut down has shut-down his teaching method. I had been promoting Blogger for use in competitive business environments like breaking news and for corporate blogging. But, two days is an eternity in business and I don't think I'm going to be recommending Blogger for this kind of thing anymore.

[Kaybie Barrett]

I was locked out of Gmail for 24 hours over Easter - not just locked out of my account, but both computers in the house could not even access the gmail.google.com page. All other internet was fine so I suspected a problem with the ISP from the start. However the broadband ISP blamed "a mail router in America" (always usefully mysterious here at the bottom of the planet!). I dug out and reactivated a disused dial-up account (a different provider to our broadband) and lo and behold - could access Gmail again. Only when I had proven it was their problem, did the broadband ISP want to think about helping. They had me run traces from the DOS command screen and email the results. Suddenly - even before they would have had had time to look at it - Gmail from broadband was working again...I strongly suspect they saw a known prob and fixed on the spot....check access on someone else's ISP if it's ever down for more than a few hours.