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finaardtoday at 1:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

> My business email system still does not work.

This is always the weird things in those rants. He's complaining that after 4 days his mails are offline.

Now I'm doing a mix of physical servers in rented rackspace, and rented servers - but even there I can have billing mixups where they deactivate servers for no good reason. And to get email working again the limiting factor would be the DNS TTL - new servers would be online somewhere else within hours of it going down. (And yes, I tested that just last year - one hoster threatened cutoff due to non-payment on a paid invoice, which prompted me to move the mail server just in case while getting this resolved).


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somewhatgoatedtoday at 1:51 PM

I don’t get your point, what is the weird thing?

That he is complaining about his email being down or that he trusted AWS at all with email?

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pannytoday at 1:53 PM

>new servers would be online somewhere else within hours of it going down

Yeah, no that's not how it works with email. You have to build reputation for weeks or receivers throttle you.

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