August 11 at 5:19 pm
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Dr. Apps, Atul Arora, Millard Baker and 2 other people liked this
Think its funny the standards we set for some companies and not others. Being that gmail is free, I can handle it going down once in a while, but when the ISP, telephone company or power company go offline for a millisecond I become enraged. Guess the answer that the cloud is meant to provide is to diversify our options so that something will always work (using gmail and other account in serial or parallel) - James Fridley
I have to remember too though, how often did my machine / hosting provider go down in the past. When that went down, it was a lot harder for me to get back in the game... instead of waiting for a few minutes. - Dion Almaer
It's better to let them handle uptime and security and patching than for all of us to try and handle it on our own like we used to. This gives us more time to work on what we excel at. It's a fine example of specialization and of course it's going to have its inconsistencies. Just consider the alternatives. - Ben Turner
"The much-ballyhooed cloud from which Web services emanate is inherently unstable and prone to odd behavior from any number of causes. At the same time, the Internet overall is incredibly robust and redundant. You just don't want to be caught at the intersection of some errant configuration change or badly behaving router. In the case of a Gmail outage, you need to have alternative e-mail services that capture messages from multiple sources to stay afloat." - Adewale Oshineye
There are many things wrong in the above quote. 1-The cloud is unstable: But he doesn't say what he's comparing it to. The cloud is vastly more stable than my desktop, most internal IT and most ISPs. 2-The internet is robust: Read the Renesys blog to hear the ugly truth: http://www.renesys.com/blog/ 3-Alternative email services: It's a good idea to have an alternative way to send email. It's a good idea to use IMAP for local storage but that won't help you receive email if your main provider goes down. - Adewale Oshineye
Good point Adewale...depends on which cloud...if my desktop crashes...I reboot in a few minutes or less....not necessarily so with the cloud...and it turns out the corporate Outlook is quite stable.... - dan farber
sorry I'm late... I actually started sending my important stuff to another webmail as backup about 24 hours before the outage. Reason: Scare stories about being locked out od your google account. I thought time for a plan B - DC Crowley
