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I had 1 outage in 7 years, 2 more i read about while I was sleeping …


Did you use it from dec 2021 to dec 2022?


I did use it during that period (and still do). I've never seen an outage. Are they regional outages? Or do I just go to bed at the right time to consistently avoid them?

But the spam filter isn't as good as Google's, 100% agree with that.


> Are they regional outages?

I would guess so? It was days. Many days of "No mail was lost but access is down" messages.


Sounds like some super weird, extremely local issue. And yes, I’ve been using it as main mail account for (after checking) almost 9 years now, so that includes that period.


> extremely local issue.

I don't think so. They posted on twitter about it as a genera purpose outage.

Anyway. I'm glad they exist and I'm glad you've found value in them. I just couldn't continue paying for an email provider I could never access.


A one-year general purpose outage? Do you have a link?


Not an entire year. It was 2-3 day outages, weekly, for quite a while. I've been trying to find the tweets, but as Elon took away tweet searching it's been a challenge to go that far back

edit I remember they were open about experiencing a denial of service attack over several weeks.

edit again: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...

a reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/qkk8qh/ddos_attac...




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