From Gmail to Gfail: Google's G-Suite topples over for unlucky netizens, rights itself A bunch of Google services, from Gmail and Google Drive to Hangouts and Classroom, fell offline for unlucky netizens in North America today. The Mountain View ads giant said a "partial outage" knocked bits of its G-Suite service down, and it seemed the East Coast of the US was the biggest areas hit, with apps and websites …
OK, it went down, but it came back up again - that's normal for cloud services, the reality is that they are generally fairly reliable but occasionally there are problems. If you are going to complain about it then go ahead - but complaining just illustrates that you don't understand the world. Have you never had your home PC fail to boot up or the TV just show a dot in the middle of the screen (or these days just a line from top to bottom)?
“ If you are going to complain about it then go ahead - but complaining just illustrates that you don't understand the world.”
WT-absolute-F!?
Dunno about you but I live in a world where large cloud companies constantly bang on about how much more reliable they are than using your own equipment.
For this reason, a PC not booting is not news worthy whereas a mega-cloud service being borked is.
"Dunno about you but I live in a world where large cloud companies constantly bang on about how much more reliable they are than using your own equipment."
Indeed, and you are free to believe/accept that -- or not -- as you wish.
For myself, I prefer to keep my data and backups on premises where they're (mostly) under my control. YMMV
> Have you never had your home PC fail to boot up or the TV just show a dot in the middle of the screen (or these days just a line from top to bottom)?
Well yes, and I've noted to never buy that brand of TV/motherboard/power supply in the future.
My current PC hasn't failed to boot in the 3 years I've had it, after the assembly issues were worked out. If it did fail to boot, it would GET the boot... right out the door.
I noted this as well. Good Luck getting to bit.ly/...anything... from inside my firewalls.
NOBODY hand types in URL's anymore, and it's almost criminal for google to put out anything that doesn't use a google domain name. What would have been wrong with:
https://issues.google.com/....
bit.ly, and it's ilk are *all* banned thru my PA's. We actually had our dental provider offering dental appointments at a mobile trailer at our office. You scheduled by following a bit.ly link (Fail) witch directed to an insecure link, (Fail) which directed to a secure link that had nothing to do with the company providing the dental services (FAIL, appointment.com or something like that), with a mis-matched certificate (WOW, unbeliveable). There was no HIPAA notifications, and the site asked for your name and date of birth to set up the appointment.
And HR/benefits actually dragged me in front of my boss and our CIO because I REFUSED to allow the traffic through. My boss almost snorted an entire cheese sandwich thru his nose when I told him why we were being summoned.
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