We use our own hardware at Fastmail

Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by necovek on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:00AM (#42487132)

But isn't using Fastmail akin to using a cloud provider (managed email vs managed everything else)? They are similarly a service provider, and as a customer, you don't really care "who their ISP is?"

The discussion matters when we are talking about building things: whether you self-host or use managed services is a set of interesting trade-offs.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by citrin_ru on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:25AM (#42487304)

Yes, FastMail is a SAAS. But there adepts of a religion which would tell you that companies like FastMail should be built on top of AWS and it is the only true way. It is good to have some counter narrative to this.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by j45 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:46AM (#42487461)

Being cloud compatible (packaged well) can be as important as being cloud-agnostic (work on any cloud).

Too many projects become beholden to one cloud.

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