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Originally posted by Prognathous
I don't recall Hotmail or Yahoo ever going down for that long. Is Fastmail's unplanned 2-day outage going to become the holder of this dubious record?
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2 days is nothing... I was on a paid web hosting account, which included email hosting... they boasted about backups, fast email, reliable service, etc, etc... email went down one day and they said the backups were corrupt.... no emails. Period.
Back then, I had no imap and did not know about pop... I did not know what the heck was going on or how email really worked. Good came out of this though, since I started looking for paid accounts with "big players" of email and now keep backups of email and a way to transfer my mx records in case of disaster.
As Trip mentioned, you have to have multiple accounts and a way to switch in case your provider goes out of business. Email is important now days and you have to keep trust in yourself, not a company.
After reading 19 pages of Fastmail's saga, I have no specific comment on that situation.