I love these "illuminated by last night's glitch" posts, and I'm a happy FastMail user, but I'd like to point out that if you're doing it yourself you might be

I love these "illuminated by last night's glitch" posts, and I'm a happy FastMail user, but I'd like to point out that if you're doing it yourself you might be willing to relax some of the constraints that FastMail or the market imposes on itself. Especially in high availability, you might be willing to have a time to recovery that's measured in hours or at worst case days in case of a natural disaster.