We use our own hardware at Fastmail

Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by goldeneye13_ on Sunday December 22, 2024 @06:59AM (#42485843)

Didn’t see this in the article, do they have multi az redundancy? I.e. if the entire raid goes up in flames what’s the recovery process?

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by comboy on Sunday December 22, 2024 @08:16AM (#42486098)

Yeah, that makes me feel uneasy being a long time fastmail user.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by cyrnel on Sunday December 22, 2024 @08:42AM (#42486240)

Looks like they do mention that elsewhere: https://www.fastmail.com/features/reliability/

> Fastmail has some of the best uptime in the business, plus a comprehensive multi data center backup system. It starts with real-time replication to geographically dispersed data centers, with additional daily backups and checksummed copies of everything. Redundant mirrors allow us to failover a server or even entire rack in the case of hardware failure, keeping your mail running.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by Amfy on Sunday December 22, 2024 @03:58PM (#42489029)

I believe they replicate from NJ to WA (Seattle). At least that's something they spoke about many years ago.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by brongondwana on Sunday December 22, 2024 @06:07PM (#42489948)

PHL to STL these days, but same design:

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/moving-house-new-datacentre/

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by sufehmi on Sunday December 22, 2024 @04:03PM (#42489073)

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/throwback-security-confidentia...

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