Fastmail is down

Re:Fastmail is down by tiffanyh on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:12AM (#33619516)

Fastmail does a lot of things right, that others typically overlook, and I really appreciate that about them.

Like how their status page is on a completely different domain (not subdomain) and hosted at a different webhost.

So we can continue to get updates like we are right now even when things aren’t going as planned.

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Re:Fastmail is down by systemvoltage on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:17AM (#33619542)

Hope to see a detailed breakdown of the issue and a good retrospective.

Downtime with email services has large disproportionate impact than other services (I am right now waiting on a magic link to login into Slack).

Curious, has GMail or iCloud mail ever had a downtime? I can't remember GMail ever having issues.

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Re:Fastmail is down by jchw on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:21AM (#33619572)

Gmail does have downtime, definitely more than most people would ever notice, but it's rarely global for all users. I can't speak to iCloud.

I wouldn't have noticed the previous Fastmail outages if it weren't for HN, either, though I could just be an outlier too.

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Re:Fastmail is down by Gigachad on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:53AM (#33619792)

Yeah I have been using Fastmail a decent bit today and haven’t noticed anything. I still can’t tell anything is wrong clicking around the app now.

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Re:Fastmail is down by tiffanyh on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:21AM (#33619567)

> Curious, has GMail or iCloud mail ever had a downtime?

Plenty of times.

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Re:Fastmail is down by pooper on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:30AM (#33620027)

I remember one big one.

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Re:Fastmail is down by unfoldedCravat on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:08AM (#33619886)

It definitely happens to other providers.

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