Gmail Goes Down Temporarily For Millions

Millions of Gmail users experienced an outage of service when the company made a capacity miscalculation on Tuesday Sept. 1st.

The problem began when Google took several of its Gmail servers offline for maintenance and made a miscalculation of load when attempting to redirect traffic. Google temporarily alleviated the situation when it moved traffic away from its overloaded request routers and released it across the whole capacity of its glorious network.