how reliable have you found Gmail - Page 3

jonifen · 11-05-2005, 08:46

Google was down for me the other night... was down for about an hour - then I went to bed so it could've been down for longer.
All other websites were working - so it could have been a proxy issue, but could be just as easily a problem at Google's end. Couldnt get on google.co.uk / google.com or gmail at all - just got "page cannot be displayed" in MSIE and firefox said the site could not be found.

Paul K · 11-05-2005, 09:54

Was a problem at google's end, they are stating it was a DNS error on their part. The site, gmail and search engine were all offline for about an hour, after which they started getting everything back up and running again.

mrlipring · 11-05-2005, 15:34

the occasional downtime, but far less than i've experienced with hotmail in the same time frame - a supposedly matured service.

Gmail's t3h baws.

sheridan · 11-05-2005, 20:15

thanks people

the reason i asked is because i have had to re-install my operating system a week ago , and was glad that i still had some emails on my gmail account as i forgot to back up my outlook express ,,

so i am thinking of going over to gmail as a single email account ,

so wanted to know if there have been any issues with it .

but feedback seems good so i might just commit to it .

many thanks to you all

zoombini · 11-05-2005, 22:42

Since installing XP on this computer I have only used OE once & that was to look at newsgroups.

I keep all my mail on gmail, I just hope they have a good backup system.

AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 16:27

I use G-Mail and have my NTL mail addy forward all mail to it and use it as my main email I have about 7 accounts with them for various forums and uses.