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I wonder: What is the average downtime of Google Mail / calendar vs the average large corporation's exchange server? Another thought- when Google calendar / m
by tuna-piano 10y ago
I wonder:
What is the average downtime of Google Mail / calendar vs the average large corporation's exchange server?
Another thought- when Google calendar / mail goes down - it's likely business users blame Google - not the IT group. When a self-hosted exchange server goes down, IT is probably blamed. Leaving an incentive to move toward cloud providers just to shift the blame.
- nolok 10y agoThe last time Gmail suffered a total and global outage, it resulted in no email lost and delays of at the most 4 hours. That basically made their outage an argument to switch to them.
- CaptSpify 10y agoThis is, IME, why big shops try to push outsourcing as much as they can. Whether development or structure, passing the buck to someone else is politically better. If you or your provider succeeds, you both can claim victory. If you try to upgrade/restructure and fail, everyone blames you. If your provider tries to upgrade/restructure and fails, you can blame them, and everyone in your company agrees with you. So politically, you can save yourself from "losing".
- j45 10y agoThere are cloud based providers of Exchange that have more or less downtime than Exchange, or any email provider. I had hosted my own email servers for over 15 years because it was the normal thing to do when I started. I don't remember the last time email has gone down for me, but calendar pain hurts me more. On google now, and today's outage makes me realize it might be simpler to just install Zimbra and mirror it across two Amazon locations for another 10 years. I'm not a fan of email providers online because hotmail lost/deleted 15 years of my emails.