remmington
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Post by remmington on Nov 13, 2021 12:28:56 GMT 1
Lost my email for 48hrs this week.
Plusnet webmail - they had server problem.
Made me think thou - 1 million other Plusnet webmail users lost theres as well - acording to the press.
There is only 66 million people in this country - what a market share 1/66th.
I would have not thought Plusnet backed by BT - would have been a big game player (not like Gmail/yahoo and the likes).
I fear the dystopian future - I really do. Cashless society not being able to buy food when servers crash.
Off now to make myself a tin foil hat.
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Post by Rhubarb on Nov 13, 2021 14:33:45 GMT 1
It is a tad worrying the way some things are going.
It's all very well whilst things work!
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Post by rhyds on Nov 13, 2021 15:48:37 GMT 1
Lost my email for 48hrs this week. Plusnet webmail - they had server problem. Made me think thou - 1 million other Plusnet webmail users lost theres as well - acording to the press. There is only 66 million people in this country - what a market share 1/66th. I would have not thought Plusnet backed by BT - would have been a big game player (not like Gmail/yahoo and the likes). I fear the dystopian future - I really do. Cashless society not being able to buy food when servers crash. Off now to make myself a tin foil hat. There's a couple of things to bear in mind regarding these numbers 1) "A million users" doesn't always mean 1 million individuals. Our Plusnet business accounts over various sites are all treated as separate contracts, therefore as an IT Officer I had about 4-5 different plusnet accounts, which would have each counted as a different customer. 2) IIRC you can have more than one plusnet email address/mailbox tied to one account/connection, so that can count as more users 3) A million mailboxes/addresses isn't really that much. My employer's got about 250 staff and over 800 email addresses on our Office 365 system. As for Plusnet's size, its much smaller than the big ISP players in the UK (BT, Sky, Virgin), however as you mentioned BT owns them. That said, from what I can tell of my own experience as a customer they're not fully integrated in to BT's systems, as their billing management pages are very different to BT's own ones That said, I've not used an ISP-supplied email address since the early years of this century, mainly because I don't want to tie my email to my internet supplier, as I want the freedom to change my supplier without having to change addresses. As for the resilience of online systems, stuff like banking, payments and core network/internet service are designed with backups and failovers so that you won't notice a lot of breakdowns and server failures. The problem is when a problem is widely distributed, like when Facebook managed to disconnect its entire system from the internet for a few hours a couple of months ago. All its systems worked, but nobody could access them until a faulty system config was changed and that change filtered through everyone else's systems. |
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Post by valhalla on Nov 14, 2021 0:42:08 GMT 1
One reason I have two separate domains to handle Emails, etc. for the different sides of the business. If one fails, then the other can be used to send-out mails.
My biggest issue is that the team at TSOhosts, that have the domain used for the shop, are a bit fussy about talking to BT and Yahoo sorts of recipients (some sort of IT snobbery, I think) and I often have to use the garage accounts to send-out mails to some of our shop customers that use BT-orientated address, otherwise they just would not be able to see them - they just get dropped into a virtual bin somewhere, not even a "bounce " message.
Ahhhh, the joys, the joys!!!
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