{"id":7969,"date":"2009-05-08T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-08T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:12:00","slug":"gmail-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/7969-gmail-downtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&rsquo;s popular webmail service Gmail experienced downtime today.&nbsp; Users trying the access their accounts at around 10:00 GMT were greeted with the message:&nbsp; &ldquo;Temporary Error (500).&nbsp; We&rsquo;re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.&rdquo;&nbsp; The exact cause of the problem is still unknown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This downtime comes a few weeks after two previous downtimes, one in February and one in early March.&nbsp; In March Google said that the downtime only affected &#8220;a small subset of users&#8221;.&nbsp; It is not clear how many users were affected by today&rsquo;s outage, but numerous South African subscribers reported access problems when trying to use Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>The service was restored around 15 minutes after the initial problems were reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=170784\"><strong>Gmail down for you<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s mail system, Gmail, experienced some downtime today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}