miercuri, 18 aprilie 2012

Gmail: disruption for millions of users


While the rumor swells around the launch of Google Drive (next week?), A cloud service from Google has been some disturbance Tuesday.

For nearly an hour around 19h, hosted Gmail users with a 500 error page when trying to connect. A 500 ​​error is a sign of an internal server error.

The outage was felt worldwide and affected individuals and professionals who hold a Google Account.

Particularly with social networks, this problem does not pass unnoticed. Gmail has nearly 350 million users. The first minutes of the incident, Google has raised an impact for less than 2% of them prior to reassess its estimate to less than 10%. A small percentage but still some 35 million users.

Google has apologized for the inconvenience and ensure the reliability of its system remains a top priority. In 2010, Gmail's uptime was 99.984% and 99.99% in 2011. What perspective.

the percentage of users affected was estimated at less than 2% and less than 10%, not the other way as we noted earlier due to incorrect reading of the dashboard of the state of Google apps.

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