GMail goes down: Notable or not?
Yesterday, as we blogged about previously, GMail went down for about 100 minutes, putting the email inboxes of countless geeks in limbo. Users on Twitter took the bait, and as is usual, freaked out. Meanwhile, others played it cool on Facebook. Should we expect outages more frequently than they happen? How big of a problem is a lack of email? We talk to Andrew Nusca of ZDNET about the outage, and get his take on whether he's a pitchfork wielding member of the mob, or whether he's a calm and collected soul.
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Google explains 100 minute GMail outage
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Google says overloaded routers are to blame for the 100 minute outage that plagued GMail yesterday afternoon. The company says it was rolling out some routine changes, which caused router load to shift to other routers, which then tried to shift the traffic again, till eventually all of GMail's routes were blocked.