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> You cannot and should not rely on Google for anything critical to your business unless you are close friends with someone working at Google and that too at a

> You cannot and should not rely on Google for anything critical to your business unless you are close friends with someone working at Google and that too at a higher up position to be able to get out of such bad situation relatively easily. The question here is what alternatives do you suggest ? Solid, reliable and equivalent solutions.

tmptmp 10y ago
Solid, reliable are very desired but you have to also consider, support, trust and control. I know this is difficult and painful but not impossible and really worth. Recent news of gitlab moving out of cloud to own infra is worth looking. These [1,2] are worth looking at. For a start, here is a very brief answer. I'm sorry if it doesn't answer your question neatly. One of my seniors gave me this advice and I am more than indebted for that. For anything (e.g. data, email) you think is critical for you, you should try to host it yourself (on prem or VPS) and (not or) some backup with a company which you trust. e.g. Your email address should be yours, you may still forward lot of your email to gmail but you don't use the gmail address for anything critical. Fastmail for email, backblaze for backup may also be good alternatives. Disclaimer: not affiliated to fastmail/backblaze; though a happy user. The advantage is you get good support from these guys and it's well worth the price. Again it's not simple and one has to do a serious cost/benefit analysis. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_moving_away_from_the_cloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_movin...
samat 10y ago
I have moved my mail, contacts and calendars to FastMail.com for the exact same reason a few months ago. 50$/year buys me some peace of mind. I use personal domain, so that I am not locked to them in case things go wrong. Currently those guys are just amazing - the have proper iOS push notifications support, for example, which is not present in Gmail (fucking political reasons, I believe).
- a3n 10y ago
  Same here. And I'm wondering if I really need a smart phone. A feature phone does phone and text, and that's all I mostly use (YMMV).

tmptmp 10y ago

Solid, reliable are very desired but you have to also consider, support, trust and control. I know this is difficult and painful but not impossible and really worth. Recent news of gitlab moving out of cloud to own infra is worth looking. These [1,2] are worth looking at. For a start, here is a very brief answer. I'm sorry if it doesn't answer your question neatly. One of my seniors gave me this advice and I am more than indebted for that. For anything (e.g. data, email) you think is critical for you, you should try to host it yourself (on prem or VPS) and (not or) some backup with a company which you trust. e.g. Your email address should be yours, you may still forward lot of your email to gmail but you don't use the gmail address for anything critical. Fastmail for email, backblaze for backup may also be good alternatives. Disclaimer: not affiliated to fastmail/backblaze; though a happy user. The advantage is you get good support from these guys and it's well worth the price. Again it's not simple and one has to do a serious cost/benefit analysis. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_moving_away_from_the_cloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_movin...

samat 10y ago

I have moved my mail, contacts and calendars to FastMail.com for the exact same reason a few months ago. 50$/year buys me some peace of mind. I use personal domain, so that I am not locked to them in case things go wrong. Currently those guys are just amazing - the have proper iOS push notifications support, for example, which is not present in Gmail (fucking political reasons, I believe).

a3n 10y ago
Same here. And I'm wondering if I really need a smart phone. A feature phone does phone and text, and that's all I mostly use (YMMV).