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Rambler wrote

Google has had a rocky year. Interestingly enough I think someone showed/proved that one of their status pages wasn't actually reporting anything, and was just a static page displaying no issues throughout. Pretty cocky, and funny. But they may need to re-engineer that if true.

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hideyourlies wrote

I second this, Google haven't been reliable at all this year, I'm glad my mail provider is my own as I can sort issues myself (although I've never had any outages).

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trevor OP wrote

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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