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Yandex Mail Success Story [video]

• okket 10y ago
  Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489055 (18 days ago, 210 comments)
• auvi 10y ago
  I am surprised to see at 8:04 that "Not very responsive service". Oracle charges a lot of money and their support should be better.
  • mhd 10y ago
    I still think Oracles is two engineers thinking about b-trees and then several million sales people.
    • _asummers 10y ago
      You're completely mischaracterizing Oracle! You forgot about the lawyers.
    • nikanj 10y ago
      That's the pre-layoffs Oracle, they've cut the engineering staff since those days
  • throwaway_exer 10y ago
    Oracle is very responsive with suggestions for trivial tickets, like how to use an existing feature. They are nigh worthless for adding features or fixing bugs that you're the first to file on. So their support is good for average workloads, but non-existent for extreme cases - like Internet-scale systems.
• nik736 10y ago
  "Even with the maximum discount that Oracle can give (70%), we saved million of $$$'s" :D
• rajeemcariazo 10y ago
  I use yandex because they offer free custom domain email hosting.
  • davisonio 10y ago
    Same here, would definitely recommend it. It's interesting to see this video - especially how Yandex Mail comes together.
  • vbezhenar 10y ago
    Also don't forget about free DNS hosting with API: domain.yandex.com. Might be useful, I made dyndns-like setup using this API once.
  • bluefin 10y ago
    I do the same but with zoho. Any advantages in using yandex?
    • ash 10y ago
      I had switched from Zoho to Yandex about a year ago. For two reasons: 1. Yandex has infinitely more usable web client. 2. Email forwarding that actually works. Every couple of months Zoho decided to stop forwarding for some weird reason. I had to re-enable it through its unusable web interface, every time.
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