Google rolled out some API changes last night that keep the services from sending messages ealier today. We have implemented the changes required to get everything back up and running and things are back to normal.

Back up and running

GvGateway.net is back up and running. We apologize for the extended outage but we experienced several hardware failures. We are looking into ways to provide more redundancy and better up time in the future.

Temporary Outage

GvGateway.net experienced a disk failure last night ans is temporarily down. We are working to restore operation as soon as possible.

Back Up

Minor changes to how we login to Google Voice and we seem to be back up and running.

Temporary Outage

Our scripts seem to be failing due to some sort of change in Google Voice. We are working to address the problem as quickly as possible and restore the service.

Large Volumes of Messages

Some users seem to be using scripts to generate emails and at times we have seen a very large numbers of SMS messages in a very short amount of time from a single user. Some users have generated upwards of 100 messages in 5 minutes using a single GvGateway.net account (and hence a single Google Voice account). While GvGateway.net does not currently impose any limits on the number of messages a user can send, it appears that doing so will result in additional messages failing to be sent by Google Voice. We suspect that Google is locking out accounts that exhibit this behavior for a period of time.

Our current estimate is that sending more than 100 SMS messages on a single Google Voice account in a 5 minute period results in the account being unable to send additional messages for 24 hours.

Please keep in mind that GvGateway.net users use there own Google Voice account to send SMS messages and that your use of Google Voice should always conform to the Google terms of service.

Service Interruption

We had 2 problems with GvGateway.net over the weekend that resulted in a service outage and delays in delivering messages. The first was caused by a huge influx of thousands of messages in a very short time. This resulted in delays in getting SMS messages late last week and over the weekend. The second issue was an ISP problem that impacted the internet connectivity of our server and caused a service outage on Saturday afternoon and Sunday.

Both issues have now been resolved and GvGateway.net is back to processing emails and generating SMS messages nearly instantly. Steps are being taken to prevent these types of issues in the future.

Please send us your feedback on our GvGateway.net Beta at GvGatewayBeta@gmail.com or post your comments here.