Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm

Siker writes "In a world of giants such as Gmail and Rackspace, email service provider FastMail.fm is somehow doing great, with signups above the million mark and reliability above four 9s. Email Service Guide interviews Jeremy Howard, founder of FastMail.fm, to find out how. Also covered are the company's contributions to Open Source software such as Cyrus-IMAP and Thunderbird. Jeremy discusses the future of IMAP, how open protocols help FastMail.fm, and why he thinks SLAs from email providers are a con."

Comments

Oh lawd

[Brian Gordon]

You can tell it's a slashvertisement when the URL is casually dropped four times in the title and summary

Re:Oh lawd

[EQ]

Have you actually read the article? ...

Jeremy Howard

You must be new here.

Re:SLA, from the article

[Anonymous Coward]

i've been working in the industry for 13 years and have never seen a single SLA honored, even in instances where they are clearly at fault and the impact is huge ( week long outage in the middle of the tax season for an accounting firm).

they are nothing more then arse covering exercises for CTO's

Been using them for years

[Junior J. Junior III]

I've been using fastmail for years, and have been very happy with it. As a free email provider they are one of the best. Arguably gmail gives you more, but I use my fastmail and gmail accounts about equally, and I really like them both about the same. And fastmail doesn't have the looming spectre of gmail's targeted ads based on the content of your messages, suggesting that they care a bit more about your privacy. Google has a little bit nicer interface, and way more storage for free, buuuuut... fastmail of late has had better availability/uptime.

Go fastmail:)