Gmail Not Working
I have been having problems accessing my Gmail account this morning. Mostly, I haven’t been able to bring up the webpage to login. I did log in and send a couple of emails before it went down again. I have another email account, so it isn’t that big of a deal. In fact, I kind of like it in a perverse sort of way - knowing the the omnipresent Google has problems with their website and web applications. Although I don’t think a client would accept that as an excuse if one of my applications goes down…
One area of concern is how much of your information is stored with Google, or any other company. As more and more applications and data move to the Internet, service outages become a big deal. Not being able to make a purchase from Amazon for a couple of hours typically doesn’t halt your day. But not having access to email, your calendar and contacts can make life difficult. Even though Gmail is a free service, people expect it to work and rely on it for communication.
Update: Gmail is working fine and now other sites are not coming up. I guess it must be my internet connection or something else strange. I can’t ping a couple of sites or bring them up in either IE or Firefox, although the vast majority of other sites come up without a problem. I logged into a server in California and routed my web browser through that, and the sites are coming up fine. My girlfriend can see them at work in Seattle, so something is amiss with my connection and not the websites. If it persists, I’ll have to call Speakeasy and find out what the problem is.
November 20th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Hi guys…
anyone else on gmail having problems ?
gmail is fine on adsl, but on my 3g card i can surf net no problem, talk on google talk no problem, but i cannot reply to any gmail mail. also cannot compose and send attachments. can recieve mail fine.
thought it was my beta firefox im using so tried IE but still same problem.
sometimes can reply to a mail but not always, especially if there is an attachment in it…
but gmail is fine on adsl so i know its not gmail themselves. 2 friends have also complained about their gmail on 3g today..
April 25th, 2007 at 9:08 am
my gmail is always down. it will randomly come up, but most of the time it responds like my interner is not hooked up. i know it is because it will go to toher websites.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:55 am
My GMail is down almost daily. It works fine when I am at other houses and other businesses, but it just doesn’t work coming from mine. I don’t understand it. I have a lot of information stored on that too so I am losing all that stuff for my work. I wish that it would work!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks,
Madison