How Much Do You Rely On Google? Web Services Redundancy Is A Big Issue
Reading this post from Steven Hodson I am forced to wonder whether putting all my email eggs into Google’s basket is a good idea.
I use gmail almost exclusively these days. I even route my corporate email through Google’s mail solution.
He makes a good point regarding customer service, but as a user, we should also seriously consider some form of redundancy when it comes to the web services we rely on. I don’t have the answer here, but believe this is a very serious issue.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I think the easiest solution would be to simply have a desktop client for your Gmail account and download all the messages on a daily basis to at least have access to your older emails and contacts even if they don’t let you in any more.
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metarand reply on August 6th, 2008 10:43 am:
That makes sense – with my routed corporate email there is some redundancy via the corporate email server, but for all others – nada.
My situation, though, is nowhere near as critical as that of anyone who uses the full suite of Google apps for example.
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