I am reading way too many articles and blogs really dinging Google for its Gmail outage today. Don’t get me wrong – I was as impacted by this as anybody else – I use Gmail and Google Accounts for personal as well as multiple businesses.

However, the last Gmail outage that I can recall was in Feb for 2.5 hours. Before that sometime in August of 2008 – if memory serves me.

Overall, for the type of service that is being provided, the volume, the # of customers and the fact that it is “FREE” .. I beg to argue that the outage can be forgiven. Hey.. any other email service I have used in the past or still use (I will not take names) tend to have more issues then Gmail has ever had!! But no one seems to make a big deal of that….