"The particular node of our server farm that your account is hosted on is currently experiencing errors" sounds a little too technical to me. Also, "GMail is having a problem" might lead them to believe that, say, if they send email from their hotmail account to somebody else's gmail, they wouldn't get it.
Looks like it's back up. There was a similar problem that affected my Gmail account last week. But it only occurred when viewing specific (older) emails. This problem seemed to affect everything.
It's disconcerting that it went down twice in the last week and with very little communication from Google as to what's happening.
techcrunch was nice enough to credit me for the gmail fail whale image spoof I emailed them for the article. even though it's just one of many links in the article, still bringing in decent traffic today
Yeah I have been booted and had to log back in and such but it must be down pretty hard for the moment.
Sucks because I was in the middle of sending a message and don't know if it went out or was even saved as a draft... I really should always write my email in emacs.
I was just thinking to myself, surely Gmail isn't down. Then this popped into my GoogleReader. Good thing they're not running all their services from the same box. :)
Yep, me too. I was just trying to send a bug report to one of my client's hosting providers about something they screwed up costing me an entire evening ... and now I can't even send the bug report!
How ironic :D
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes."
I'm sorry to hear gmail is down, but really what can you expect for free?
When the service was down for your email which your life depends on, where you able to reach someone to get support-- I bet that answer was a sad "no...". Oh yea, I forgot, you could go read the community forums...
Company's like TVC.Net, Godadd y and others offer email for a buck a month and you can bet had service been down with them you'd be able to at least call someone-- or even move your account quickly to another server and be back up in no time.
So do you depend on free and prefer the type of service you get with free?
At what point did businesses expect free would be reliable, and expect free customer support as well?
If you lost money due to using a free service methinks you only have one person to blame.
