Google Sync down?

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Google Sync has recently been experiencing some reliability issues, and for now at least, it’s down.

he problem is reportedly caused by a data centre issue at Google, and only affects the Google Sync software. A manual sync, or any other synchronisation software (such as SEVEN beta) should be unaffected.

Hi everyone,
As many of you have noticed, Google Sync is having some difficulties due to an extended problem with one of our datacenters.  This has been going on over the weekend, but it’s got significantly worse today, so I’m just letting everyone know what’s happening.
None of your information has been lost, and you will still be able to get your data through Sync, but you will find that Push isn’t working very well.  This is because we’re batching up fetch requests to be able to cope with the traffic we’re seeing while this problem is ongoing.  As soon as we’ve got the problem fixed, push should seamlessly start working properly again.
We’re working flat out to get this fixed, but unfortunately we don’t have an ETA at the moment.  We’re doing everything we can to improve the situation in the meantime, and I’ll post here again when I have more news.
Finally, I want to apologise to everyone – we’re feeling your pain too, and we will get this sorted out as soon as we can.
Douglas

Update:

I should add that this is affecting Google Sync for iPhone, Windows Mobile and S60 – if you’re using another way to sync with Google (the BlackBerry sync application, Android sync and so on) you should be unaffected by this problem.

Is anyone here using Google Sync affected by this?

Google, via the::unwired.

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