Google Outage: When you need to kick a site offline, Google now provides the most powerful network for all your nefarious packet flooding needs. Don't be too evil. Wink! Wink!
I mean, Google Outage: When you need to know if a site is offline!
> Google Documents service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.
My hosting provider had some serious connection issues moments ago, and I'm seeing some major latency and packet loss at L3: http://internethealthreport.com/
It depends. You can look back at a year and say "We had 100% uptime". You can also make an assurance that you have %90 uptime, %99, 99.9, or even %99.99 and beyond which all actually carry a meaning about load balancing, fall over, and redundancy.
If it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.
Maybe that's true in the usual way we'd understand that percentage (the percentage of total users subject to this particular issue). But based on the fact that all seven of my Google accounts were inaccessible via IMAP, I'm wondering if they only had 0.007% of users fail in their attempt to access the service during that window, while many other potentially-affected users were simply blissfully ignorant of the issue.
The UK University I work at is experiencing problems with IMAP connections and intermittent problems with Google Drive. I believe other UK Universities are also experiencing similar problems.
heh, as I was first scanning the HN homepage, I read this as "Google Outrage" and immediately thought it was talking about something like the scroogled campaign.
