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Didn’t see this in the article, do they have multi az redundancy? I.e. if the entire raid goes up in flames what’s the recovery process?



Looks like they do mention that elsewhere: https://www.fastmail.com/features/reliability/

> Fastmail has some of the best uptime in the business, plus a comprehensive multi data center backup system. It starts with real-time replication to geographically dispersed data centers, with additional daily backups and checksummed copies of everything. Redundant mirrors allow us to failover a server or even entire rack in the case of hardware failure, keeping your mail running.



I believe they replicate from NJ to WA (Seattle). At least that's something they spoke about many years ago.


PHL to STL these days, but same design:

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/moving-house-new-datacentre/


Yeah, that makes me feel uneasy as a long time fastmail user.




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