"Google for Work Gmail outage" is better.

Most depressing thing about this (given I use gmail and haven't noticed any problems) :

  	9/15/16, 1:16 AM

As someone living in Australia and mostly using a VPN I don't really know how to parse any of that. I can intuit it, but given ISO 8601, I feel that's somewhat of a cop-out.

For me, it shows 11:16 AM (EST) which was right around the time it happened. So it seems to be showing based on your local time.

Heh - like you, I did a very sneaky immediate edit regarding timezones (I'm on a VPN, you're in EST). Challenges remain.

EST starts on November 6. It’s EDT until then. </pedantry>

Kind of weird that they mention a workaround - which involves stopping and starting the service, but obviously only works if you know about the workaround. Why not apply it to everyone themselves. (via a script) or if they don't want to force the temorary disruptuon on everyone at least like create a button to try the workaround, and put it on the outage notification page... Stopping and starting it seems like something that wouldn't be that resource-intensive to apply to everyone, would it? Isn't a hack that applies the workaround to everyone better than an outage/downtime while they figure out a purer reason?

Where was this workaround mentioned?

edit:

Found a tweet about it: https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/776078668212953090

Seems like people are having some success with it and there isn't data loss.

“Workaround: Disable Gmail Service in Admin Console UI, save the changes, enable it back, save the changes.”

Mods, can you update the title to "Google Apps for business down" as personal gmail is not down.

Seems to be coming back up now.

damn it. I had to come to HN to verify as I thought we were hacked.

Can someone enlighten me on the use case for Gmail for business?

You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right? I would, as a company, never allow anyone such unfettered access.

Even if it was ad-free, Google would still have access to the content of your emails. That does not sound like anything I'd ever give any company.

Edit: Gmail for business doesn't show ads. But that doesn't prevent them from profiling and tracking your company activity.

It saves you from having to host an email server yourself, which is frankly a huge pain, regardless of any guides one finds on the web.

Or, if you so prefer, it saves you from running Exchange, which gives you a more complex environment for more cash.

Furthermore, there are no ads in 'Google Apps for Work' or 'Google Apps for Education' [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/work/answer/6056650?hl=en

This page is what I was looking for. Thanks

> You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right?

The business product has no ads.

No ads in Gmail for business