[paraschopra]

I was thinking of posting this but then I thought.. gosh.. so much for the karma :)

[jacquesm → paraschopra]

let me help you there ;)

[gaius]

How embarassing that twitter can report on anyone's downtime.

[pierrefar → gaius]

Actually, it's the greatest testimony to the hard work the Twitter team has done into making the service more stable.

[dreur]

Another google product to replace gmail http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

[Megasumo]

IMAP is gone as well (Europe, The Netherlands)

[vimalg2 → Megasumo]

I second that as confirmed; IMAP is working in India. Google Gears saves my inbox.

[jyothi → Megasumo]

IMAP is working for me from India.

The web interface however is down.

[AndrewDucker → Megasumo]

Working for me in Scotland.

[awad]

I'm still getting IMAP access, at least

[jacquesm]

so much for those 5 9s I guess...

That's the second glitch for google in a very short time.

[pierrefar → jacquesm]

Have you seen this article about the legal eloquence that Google has in their SLAs?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/googles-apps-sla-allows...

[jacquesm → pierrefar]

No, I had not seen that. That's pretty ugly actually, when my own services are down for more than a minute I have a very bad knot in my stomach and I would not dare to point at my (non-existent) sla to say, see, I told you this was ok.

In the future, I think track record and transparency of SLA's will be the deciding factor when it comes to application services hosted by third parties.

[pierrefar → jacquesm]

I run a free service that earns me nothing at the moment, and it has crashed occasionally at 2 or 3AM and I dutifully got out of bed and fixed it. That stomach knot you speak of is one I know and dread.

[jacquesm → jacquesm]

the 'down' arrow is not to indicate disagreement or a lack of understanding of the subject matter.

[alabut]

Aaand we're back.

[bianco]

...will there be a life after Google?

(...and will it be eternal?)