Google let's me down again

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:19:53 +0000

So it appears that the Google Apps for Domains I use for my domain 'mattmower.com' is broken. Although I can login to the admin interface any attempt to access the inbox reports a 502 "temporary server error". Googles definition of "temporary" is a bit loose since this has been going on for at least 24 hours now.

It's not bouncing mail so I've some hope it's not entirely lost but it's also not delivering it so I've no real idea. Maybe it's just being forwarded to the great /dev/null in the sky. I had some important ongoing email conversations which have now abruptly stopped and I've no idea if there were responses. That makes me super happy.

Google's idea of help is a confusing morass of "themed" forums. The theme labels are a bit of a misnomer though as they should, more properly, be labelled as the circles of hell that they are.

I'm quite angry but mostly with myself for trusting something so important to me as my email to a company like Google. Why did I do this? Because Google Apps for Domains is cheap and convenient. Big mistake.

I now intend to sever all my dependencies on Google. I neither like nor trust them and I certainly don't want to entrust anything important to them.

Lesson learned.

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Google let's me down again