David's Computer Stuff Journal

On Eggs and Baskets

Posted by David N. Welton Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:12:00 GMT

This is a worrying story:

http://blog.mibbit.com/?p=8

He did get his account reinstated, but being similarly quite dependent on Google for various services, this story was something of a wake up call for me. It's tough - they do offer a lot of attractive things for free, but single points of failure are bad, and even worse when they have a less than stellar support infrastructure to help you through the rough spots.

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  1. John
    {{count}} minutes later:

    Google has a paid service that actually is not very expensive.

    No ads, phone and email support, etc. This is the one to use if you are using your stuff for anything important.