Google problems and downtimes.

[Lumos]

Lots of news lately about Google, YT and associated services going down time and time again.

Yes - this has really been happening.

As huge and powerful as the big G is, it still has some major screwups.

In particular, gmail is a huge concern as it has been unreliable recently for both sending and receiving.

This should be of special concern to anyone with an email list and/or autoresponder.

Here is an article centering upon that matter:

Code:

https://lightmeter.io/googledown-happens-every-day-for-mailops-admins/

Very important info from there:

Quote:If you messaged your own Gmail account every five minutes from a non-Gmail address like Protonmail, you would have seen confusing results. Google has been alternating between successful deliveries, then permanently refusing mail sent to Gmail with hard bounce messages like:

550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist

These hard bounce messages tell other mailservers that messages sent to this address can never arrive, and therefore the message should be dropped as all future delivery attempts will be futile. These bounces tell bulk mailing systems like app registration notifications and newsletter mailing systems that the recipient address is invalid and should be permanently removed from mailing lists.

The effect is chaotic and long lasting:

All mail sent to affected Gmail accounts has been unnecessarily lost, and Gmail has generated millions of false and unnecessary bounce messages
All automatically blocked email addresses on mail automation platforms like SendGrid and phpList will, by default, never receive messages from those senders again

Here's more info for anyone curious to follow-up:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/137233...or-news-vn

https://www.arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020...s-in-a-row

Google services including Gmail and YouTube suffer outage ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-serv...2020-12-14

Google was hit with massive outage, including YouTube ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/tech/goog...gmail-down

Gmail, YouTube outage: Users report problems worldwide
https://nypost.com/2020/12/14/gmail-yout...-worldwide

(Searching on 'google outages' brings loads of results...)

[Lumos]

And here is a bit more info about the big G:

Code:

https://loupventures.com/google-will-still-be-the-oxygen-of-the-internet/

[Znj1377]

for smithnowt 1.

[Znj1377]

For smithnowt 2.

[Znj1377]

For smithnowt 3.

[Lumos]

Moved to end.

[Znj1377]

Just to be CLEAR! I removed my posts only for ONE REASON! To make smithnowt HAPPYer!
And that is my last response to this dude!

[Lumos]

@Znj1377:
I posted THIS thread to highlight a matter of concern in the IM and MMO realms.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.