Gmail Outage: Were You Affected?

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Lolita Carrico

Gmail was inaccessible Tuesday afternoon, with the outage impacting Gmail’s 36 million users!

Google said the outage occurred when it took some of its mail servers offline for routine maintenance.  The company recently made structural changes, which placed a heavy load on its routing servers.   These servers direct Web queries to the right Gmail servers for response.  

If your website’s server goes down, it’s an inconvenience.  When Gmail went down yesterday, the result was felt all around the world.

Did the Gmail outage effect you?