mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2009 | google, appengine, outage, fail
AppEngine is having some major issues this morning. Even the server status page seems to be broken.
I found this forum post about it from Brett Slatkin.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2007 | google, realability, outage, adsense
System down message in 27 languages (including once in American English, and once in British English - in case you are confused by the spelling of "apologize", you can scroll down a page and read it 'correctly' spelled as "apologise").
Quoted: The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later.
We apologize for any inconvenience. - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2007 | skype, reliability, outage, voip
I had a conference called scheduled today and had to resort to *GASP* the land-line!
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 20 2007 | flickr, web services, outage, data center, operations, reliability
FlickR is down today. Blog claims it's back up - but it isn't. The FlickR home page says FlickR is having a "massage". Why is it that people feel that humor is a good way to deal with service outages. To me, it just makes me more angry that the people who run it find it so easy to interpret their inconveniencing me as a joke.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 06 2005 | Google, Outage
Anyone else seeing the Google home page crap out today. I use Google's personalized home page, but I haven't been able to bring up Google for a while. I think their login-system may be down (or at least, I can't get to it). Unfortunately, I couldn't even use the non-personalized generic google home page as the main one would keep redirecting me, and the login would take forever (hang).
So, I deleted all my cookies, got onto to google.com again. Still can't log in, but I changed my home page to this one (google.com/webhp) - hopefully that will always point to the generic page, with no redirects so I can use google even when the personalization system is broken).
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