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trevor OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Google says Gmail working again after 'significant' number of users experienced issues during the company's second service disruption in 2 days by trevor

What's weird is how Google seems to consistently go down at least one time per year. Remember last year when YouTube was down for everyone for like 2~ hours? A week or two ago everyone's YouTube app crashed too.

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hideyourlies wrote

I remember this, and they do see to have an outage every year at around the same time, the problem with them is they rely on one server to run multiple things, as seen on a post shared here a couple days ago.

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trevor OP wrote

Makes sense. Though with a company as big as Google you'd think they'd have a separate server for anything.

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hideyourlies wrote

My thought exactly, most probably now they'll have a dedicated server for everything.

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Rambler wrote

A couple months ago YouTube was down for an hour or two, that's the only time I've first hand experienced it. Sometimes you'd get the page to load, but not the video, sometimes you'd just get some Google error page.

The tin foil hat in me always assumes the worse, that it's a result of some unfriendly actors because that seems more likely than a company the size of Google having single points of failure and the ability for widespread outages like this as modern as they are.

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