Google's Postini Fail pinned on bad filter, hardware glitch
The extreme email delays the plagued users of Google's Postini message management service earlier this week were caused by a shoddy email-filter update and a power-related hardware failure involving the company's database storage servers. Today, the Mountain View Chocolate Factory released an "incident report" to Postini users, …
Is this news any more? It seems to be happening rather regularly at the moment. Google have been fine at big read-only load balanced infrastructures like search and advertising, but don't seem to have a clue about cloud computing. Of course, the cloud will never replace real apps for people who have seen all this before...
"Once we pulled Postini out of the loop, all of that deferred mail hit our system (along with quite a lot of spam)," said Russ Meyer"
Is this another El Reg joke or has the old man given up the soft porn business?
Not that I know anything about pr0n. Anything at all! nada ... zilch ....
The more I hear about these cock-ups, the more I love my 20+ year old dual pedestal Sun 3/470 "Pegasus" email[1] server :-)
Cloud computing is for the birds. Roll it out for yourself. It ain't difficult. Or ask a computer-savvy friend for info on access to non-advertising driven email services.
[1] email, ftp, usenet and web server, actually. In that order.
any info on that? Possible dos attack, or just maybe (ooh, lessee, just for example) MS getting basic protocols wrong, again? I'd like to know.
Now that the chocolate factory are in charge I didn't expect to hear British Rail excuses. This sounds suspiciously like one of those 'wrong kind of snow/leaves/track' type of excuses to me...
On the plus side, our Postini-handled email arrived on time and OK - but it worries me that the image of perfection is slipping a bit.
