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[NationHosts]

can't access google or gmail here, is it down for anyone?

[Harzem]

That would be the end of internet for many people. Both loading fine for me.

[Orien]

Gmail was having some outages earlier this week for scattered accounts, but I can see them fine.

[NationHosts]

I can't access it on second computer either, I'm using COX.

[JRSEOMarketing]

From the Official Gmail Blog:

We feel your pain, and we're sorry
Monday, August 11, 2008 6:05 PM
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager

Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we're really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.

We heard loud and clear today how much people care about their Gmail accounts. We followed all the emails to our support team and user group, we fielded phone calls from Google Apps customers and friends, and we saw the many Twitter posts. (We also heard from plenty of Googlers, who use Gmail for company email.) We never take for granted the commitment we've made to running an email service that you can count on.

We've identified the source of this issue and fixed it. In addition, as with all issues that affect Gmail and our other services, we're conducting a full review of what went wrong and moving quickly to update our internal systems and procedures accordingly. We don't usually post about problems like this on our blog, but we wanted to make an exception in this case since so many people were impacted. In general, though, if you spot a problem with your Gmail account, please visit the Gmail Help Center and user group, where the Gmail Guides are your fastest source of updates.

Again, we're sorry.

It appears quite a few Googlers that work for Google had problems with their email to. Outages happen...

[monkeybone]

It works fine for me. Tested it just now.

Monkeybone

[MGCJerry]

It was down for me a couple days ago but it works now.