Friday, March 22, 2013

Gmail is Down, Giving 500 Server error


Looks like Gmail, the popular webmail service from Google is facing some serious outage problems. Gmail seems to be down and many users including me are getting a 500 Server error. The error page tells that its just a Temporary Error (500) and will get fixed on its own in few minutes.

Checkout the screenshot below for  the error that Gmail is giving:


This issue is affecting less than 2% of the Google Mail user base. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail.