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Sorry, but welcome to technology. Gmail has been sporadic for me. Firefox crashes periodically on this machine, but not my box at home. I've bought games tha

Sorry, but welcome to technology. Gmail has been sporadic for me. Firefox crashes periodically on this machine, but not my box at home. I've bought games that I can NEVER get to work on any computer. When I plug in my iPhone via USB, Photoshop opens. Back when I actually worked at a big company, the Exchange server acted up from time to time. Google Analytics just admitted to losing some data, but they think they can recover it. Amazon was down for a big swath of time recently. Yahoo being down for a single morning is not news, and should not come as a surprise- serving up email at that volume is complex. It being down frequently is another story. Is it? I'm sure if you ever spin up a startup, your first technology catastrophe and resultant unscheduled downtime will cure you of your desire to see an angry mob when stuff like this happens.

wumi 18y ago
Or, he could just have his company switch to Google Apps.
- catone 18y ago
  Google Apps has had outages, too. It won't change anything. Everything has outages. The difference -- if there is one -- might be in an SLA that might give you some money back if there is an outage. I have no idea what the terms are for Google Apps vs. Yahoo! Email.... I'm just sayin', everything goes down eventually...
  - wumi 18y ago
    I was implying that Yahoo mail sucks, regardless of the outages.
  - mchristoff 18y ago
    Does google apps have outages? I haven't experienced one in 6 months.
  - misterbwong 18y ago
    You said the magic letters - SLA. This is why some companies pay big bucks for outsourced email. They guarantee a % uptime and if the provider doesn't meet it, I believe that you have legal grounds to sue for damages and disruption to business. Honestly, if email is _that_ critical to you, you're going to have to pay for it.
    - diego 18y ago
      They usually offer a money-back guarantee if they fail to meet the % uptime, but I don't know of any provider who would absolutely guarantee uptime and risk a lawsuit for not complying. I'm curious to know if there are some like that.

wumi 18y ago

Or, he could just have his company switch to Google Apps.

catone 18y ago
Google Apps has had outages, too. It won't change anything. Everything has outages. The difference -- if there is one -- might be in an SLA that might give you some money back if there is an outage. I have no idea what the terms are for Google Apps vs. Yahoo! Email.... I'm just sayin', everything goes down eventually...
- wumi 18y ago
  I was implying that Yahoo mail sucks, regardless of the outages.
- mchristoff 18y ago
  Does google apps have outages? I haven't experienced one in 6 months.
- misterbwong 18y ago
  You said the magic letters - SLA. This is why some companies pay big bucks for outsourced email. They guarantee a % uptime and if the provider doesn't meet it, I believe that you have legal grounds to sue for damages and disruption to business. Honestly, if email is _that_ critical to you, you're going to have to pay for it.
  - diego 18y ago
    They usually offer a money-back guarantee if they fail to meet the % uptime, but I don't know of any provider who would absolutely guarantee uptime and risk a lawsuit for not complying. I'm curious to know if there are some like that.