Google Fixes Outage-Causing Flaw In App-Hosting Platform
30 Jun 2008 - 09:03:07

By Antone Gonsalves Fri Jun 20, 5:45 AM ET on Thursday said it has fixed the technical snafu that brought down the search engine's Web application hosting service for several hours this week. Also on Thursday, Google introduced paid service plans for its Web site Optimizer, an online tool for testing a site's content for its effectiveness in reaching visitors. On its App Engine outage, Google engineers identified the root cause of the flaw that returned errors to data-store queries from subscribers' hosted sites on Tuesday, Pete Koomen, product manager for the service, said. To correct the problem, Google implemented controls to ensure that queries would no longer trigger the flaw and "bugs like this in the future don't affect the stability of the systems as a whole." "All of our systems are currently operating smoothly," Koomen said. The about 6:30 a.m. Pacific time with error returns to a small percentage of data-store requests. The number of error returns increased significantly between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and again at 12:40 p.m. before Google was able to isolate the problem and bring the system back to normal. Other Internet companies, such as online retailer , are also offering so-called "cloud computing" services. Potential corporate customers, however, because of a number of concerns, such as whether they would get locked into a single vendor with their data or applications held hostage, or would consumer-oriented vendors such as Google and Amazon sta...

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