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All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distrac

All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

ujjwalg 17y ago
second that. And now techcrunch down too.
- l0nwlf 17y ago
  http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/
ars 17y ago
But if you stored it locally you would still have downtime. Downtime (problems) are inevitable. It's just that only you would notice, so it might not get on the news. I doubt the actual uptime would be that different for any one person.
- modoc 17y ago
  The difference is that you can know what's wrong and fix it (assuming you're able). Also, over the past 2+ years, my mail server has had less downtime than GMail, and any outages were easy for me to diagnose and fix. I like feeling in control over critical pieces of my business (at least as much as possible - I'm in no position to build my own DC for instance).
  - natrius 17y ago
    Google is a better sysadmin than I am. I assume most people are in the same boat.
    - lsc 17y ago
      I know google hires some people who are better than me, but that doesn't mean the gmail system is better than something I could engineer.... For one thing, google needs to have a much lower cost per user than I do, forcing them to make some choices that I don't have to. I have no problem paying $50 a month for email service, and that level of cost per user would be untenable on a free email service. (I host most of my email myself, and I'm trading a free co-lo to mark perkel of junkemailfilter.com to do my filtering. between that and my time, I'd guess $50/month)
    - antonovka 17y ago
      This is true, but also very unfortunate, as GMail is often a poor substitute for a well-administered in-house e-mail system.
    - modoc 17y ago
      Running a mail system for 10 people is a lot easier than running one for a few million.
gehant 17y ago
This phrase comes to mind... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s

ujjwalg 17y ago

second that. And now techcrunch down too.

l0nwlf 17y ago
http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/

ars 17y ago

But if you stored it locally you would still have downtime. Downtime (problems) are inevitable. It's just that only you would notice, so it might not get on the news. I doubt the actual uptime would be that different for any one person.

modoc 17y ago
The difference is that you can know what's wrong and fix it (assuming you're able). Also, over the past 2+ years, my mail server has had less downtime than GMail, and any outages were easy for me to diagnose and fix. I like feeling in control over critical pieces of my business (at least as much as possible - I'm in no position to build my own DC for instance).
- natrius 17y ago
  Google is a better sysadmin than I am. I assume most people are in the same boat.
  - lsc 17y ago
    I know google hires some people who are better than me, but that doesn't mean the gmail system is better than something I could engineer.... For one thing, google needs to have a much lower cost per user than I do, forcing them to make some choices that I don't have to. I have no problem paying $50 a month for email service, and that level of cost per user would be untenable on a free email service. (I host most of my email myself, and I'm trading a free co-lo to mark perkel of junkemailfilter.com to do my filtering. between that and my time, I'd guess $50/month)
  - antonovka 17y ago
    This is true, but also very unfortunate, as GMail is often a poor substitute for a well-administered in-house e-mail system.
  - modoc 17y ago
    Running a mail system for 10 people is a lot easier than running one for a few million.

gehant 17y ago

This phrase comes to mind... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s