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Same. It’s like I’m a small company. Single server with no active maintenance? Sounds great and why would we ever spend more on it? It works great! ... for a wh
by chrismeller 9y ago
Same. It’s like I’m a small company. Single server with no active maintenance? Sounds great and why would we ever spend more on it? It works great! ... for a while.
Once that single server goes down it’s suddenly the biggest issue currently keeping us from doing anything. Whether it’s because of something I did or an upstream outage doesn’t matter, I’ve still got to troubleshoot it and try to work around it.
For $5/m you could have FastMail do it for you, or for free you could have Google do it. Yes there are trade offs, but they also have more infrastructure than you do for the same price.
Email is just one of those things I would rather outsource.
- eikenberry 9y agoI think every FastMail proponent is single, as they are always touting how you get the same thing as running your own email server for $5/mo. But for people with a family it is rather expensive for email.
- kiwijamo 9y agoI'm the opposite. When it was just me I didn't mind running my own mail server and putting up with my self-inflicted downtimes. But when I started adding family members it added more pressure on me to ensure good uptimes etc. So for me, family members were the reason why I migrated to FastMail. I don't see it as being very costly for the quality of service they provide but YMMV.
- eikenberry 9y agoThis hasn't been an issue for me once I moved my mail server into a VPS (ran it from home for a long time). Been running in a VPS now for 10+ years and downtime has never been an issue. The main pain points have been clean IPs and migrating user accounts when I upgrade the server.