SiliconRepublic.com: Gmail outage blamed on server miscalculation – CIO
September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Google Apps
For many people who depend on Gmail it must have seemed like the earth stood still … for two hours anyway as the service experience a very rare outage.
Yesterday between 12:30 p.m. PDT to about 2:30 p.m. PDT (that’s 8.30pm GMT to 10.30pm GMT here) Gmail experienced an outage and millions of people who depend on the service for running their business, staying in touch with loved ones or backing up data could not access the service.
It is understood that the problem occurred when Google took a number of Gmail servers offline for maintenance.
via SiliconRepublic.com: Gmail outage blamed on server miscalculation – CIO.