On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Franklin wrote: >> Not really "down" time, more like limited access as it was has so > > It is down time no matter which way you look at it, and last year's > event around Sept. was very bad. Define bad as it didn't effect and of are 46 migrated clients (each a hosted domain). >> only has been loss of access to emails though the web interface. They >> have not suffered 1 complete loss of access to users data since > > It depends on the user, your location and what services you are using. > You can't make such a broad claim. If a user only uses imap and can't > access email through imap then that is a complete loss of access. > Regardless if only she or he is affected or half the world. Again incorrect as that user will always have access to at least webmail on top of any pop3/imap access he or she is given. > >> starting up this whole venture. Which is allot more then I can say >> for >> any ones home or business internet connections or farther more for >> that matter servers and services running flawlessly. > > It is very easy to set up and maintain a home server with 99.9% uptime > or better for any marginally experienced admin. Mostly by virtue of it > being used by only 1 or a few people. With setups the size of google > downtime is much more likely to happen, for a specific subset of > users. > 99.9% can't even be gareented after adding up all the single points of failure for the power company, phone company and nomal server/software upgrades and down time. > Regards, > Jeroen > Now I'm not trying to say googles the be all end solution for every one. But it's a great alternitive for most. And if there track record doesn't by it self help prove that, just look at all the local,state,gov places using them along with more and more fortune 500's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
