Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:56AM
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Just don’t tell us how many nines you have, hey?
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I mean, I can't speak for him but I also run a small server and I think I just beat MS365 in nines because of this outage.
Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by sandworm101 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:46AM
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My non-mirrored Synology NAS full of movies just beat MS365.
infinitely many, so far...
It is not difficult to keep a mail server online.
FreeBSD(ZFS+jails old but gold) + postfix + dovecot.
Ha nearly the same setup here, FreeBSD/ZFS/opensmtp/dovecot/rspamd
And yes uptime (with short outages(updates etc)) is not that important for a mail-server, since the sender re-transfers in intervals (mine is 5min the 8 then 15 then 60 then 180 then something up to 2days)
So the uptime for the service is 100% (maybe 99.999) over the last 8 years.
Mail servers are easy, getting the other mail servers (Microsoft,Gmail,etc) to play nice with yours is harder.
Not that hard, for example thats a good tester:
and
https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ (offline atm Azure??)
Getting a clean ip is hard. I have my personal email server setup and had to get it off of some black lists maintained by baracuda. Although i agree personal self hosted email is fairly straightforward and ideally more people should do it. Hetzner provides cheap and reliable vms.
>Hetzner provides cheap and reliable vms.
True, i have some hetzner (not vm's but metal), and Vultr (just vm's), i just had one bad IP until now (i just changed it instead of trying to get it removed from a blacklist)