Re:Don’t Mess with The Google
by brongondwana on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:34AM
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You can know how we do it if you like:
https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good...
and how we do the initial load as well:
https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/dec-15-putting-the-fast...
Thanks, that was fascinating. And props to the salt-n-pepa fan!
Interesting, thanks for that. I'm up and running on my own domain after waiting for the domain name server to transfer from Bluehost where I registered the domain. I did start out doing manual configuration until deciding I might as well use Fastmail's; their DNS config page is rather nicely laid out.
Was very easy in the end, but must admit I had forgotten just about everything I once learned about DNS. As such it was nice to get a little refresher.
EDIT: I would probably have gone for Google Apps / G Suite if not for this article. So, yeah, hope it served Google well to freeze those accounts with no warning.
Also, changes propagate faster even than gmail. If you have your inbox open on 2 computers and move an email out of your inbox on one of them, you'll see it replicated in near real time on the second computer. I don't know how they do it, but it works really well.