I've always found Gmail reliable, but I've seen plenty of performance issues in the last year. I now have personal email on Fastmail and work on Google Apps. T

I've always found Gmail reliable, but I've seen plenty of performance issues in the last year. I now have personal email on Fastmail and work on Google Apps. The difference is quite striking. It'll take a good 20 seconds before all of Gmail is loaded, Fastmail loads in under one second. Gmail will easily take 300-400 MB of RAM in Chrome after a few hours, Fastmail is around 40-50MB. Then there's clicking on emails. Once you've browsed for emails in Fastmail you'll understand why I thing Gmail is slow these days. Also Fastmail's IMAP implementation is much more reliable.