I was getting frustrated over the weekend because I couldn’t sync my phone calendar with Google Calendar and iCal. I didn’t know how important my calendar was until it stopped working. I’ve been doing this synchronization thanks to a free Goosync account reminding me with due dates or appointments. Lately I’ve been getting login failure. If you are also a free Goosync user, don’t worry it will be back up soon.

Goosync announced on their forums,

Please accept our sincere apologies for the recent disruption in the GooSync service.

We have recently experienced accelerated and unforeseen growth, this has inevitably brought with it some “growing pains”. The results of this mean we are currently reaching the capacity of our current hardware configuration long before expected. The recent disruptions to the GooSync service have all been linked with these hardware issues. Read more.

In regards to the free users not being able to log in, they explained,

Due to server performance issues we have decided to limit the service to just paid users overnight. We aim to restore our free & paid service asap. Thanks for your understanding.

UPDATE:
Thanks for the patience you’ve all shown whilst we’ve been busy working on updating our servers. We’ve made some changes today to improve performance for paid users, we will continue to work throughout the weekend and fully expect to have a full (free and paid) service running on Monday.

While I’m happy for Goosync for “growing,” I’m a little irritated that I wasted time checking my phone settings and checking my login password at their website because the error told me I had wrong login information. I did not know about the whole issue until I searched their Support forums after 2 days of confusion. An email would have been nice. An accurate application error message would have been nicer.

What About You?

Do you synchronize your calendar? Are you a happy Goosync user or use something else?