I've been using Fastmail for years now and love it. I understand that no SaaS can have 100% perfect uptime always, and this is the first Fastmail outage that I can recall experiencing. So, just in case anyone is worried seeing this, I'm a happy paying customer and Fastmail has a lot of goodwill built up with me.<p>That said, it does sound the status page could use an update: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28964509" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28964509</a>
I’ve been on Fastmail for about 4 months now. This is the first service interruption I’ve seen & didn’t even notice it. I’ve used a lot of other providers, but from what I’ve experienced over these past months, Fastmail is one of the best. Their IOS app is great as well. Any provider is susceptible to outages due to volumetric attacks.
Fyi (in case fastmail is reading this), fastmail is down (smtp and web site) right now, though status page says issue is resolved. I can handle the interruption but it would be nice if monitoring picked up stuff like this and updated the status page automatically. That might be a decent cloudflare workers app...
coincidentally (but unrelated), what is this crowd's current mail hosting recommendation?<p>it has consistently been fastmail in the past, and i have had a great time with them over the last three years, but it's always nice to know what else is out there.<p>for better or worse i've also come to use fastmail for dns management (tolerable) and even for http hosting (awful, but occasionally convenient).
Looks like a criminal operation is behind this.<p><a href="https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-providers/" rel="nofollow">https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-prov...</a>
Is there any email service that can be used in concert with a password keeper like 1Pass or LastPass to generate unique email addresses <i>in addition to</i> unique passwords per site? I think this might be a nice way of improving privacy and safeguarding email from spam, or at least help identifying the source of leaks.
Can anyone educate me why companies choose to buy secondary domains for their status pages? I find it confusing and would trust `status.company.tld` immediately rather than having to think about it and verify - which you can’t really do when the issue comes up.