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So..Gmail is down..
Does anyone use Gmail for business purposes?
If not, would you consider using them?
Its frustrating when its down when using on a personal basis, but if its your sole business email, any down time is not good.
by boxfiddler
drives me up a wall. We use it at The Center, but I have Outlook configured to pull my mail from it. I use the web interface from home, to check for troubles on the days I'm not there.
Otherwise, woof. They can keep Gmail. Blech.
Does it go down often for you?
by shellbot
its down worldwide.
Was giving me troubles over the weekend..same type of problem..server error.
I'm not a huge fan of the interface myself, but I do like thier spam filtering, so its a trade off for me.
by boxfiddler
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by shellbot
At home, I'm happy with the e-mail accounts provided by my ISP and my web host. At work we have our own Exchange server. I have a Windows Live account I was required to set up in order to access some forgotten MS resource, but I couldn't tell you what it is.
I wouldn't consider using any web-based e-mail service for any business other than a small single proprietor, one who doesn't have the traffic, staff, or money to justify / support an in-house solution.
by shellbot
however, I don't have any contacts in those places, so I don't know what their opinion of it for business use.
I guess if I was running a small company, with only a couple staff, I'd consider it for cost reasons.
At home I dn't use my ISP accounts..been about 5 years since I bothered with those.
You might have a hard time getting a hold of them right now...
In my opinion, having a company's email on the outside like that can prove to be a huge security risk. Who know what sensitive information could be find in the emails.
It's all outside your network and out of your control. I guess the question is, does a company have the resources to both house internal email and secure it.
by shellbot
You've got me there Brenton :)
I know a couple non-profits here are signing up for hosted services with MS and some others are using Google services.
Cost wise it suits them, however..I'd like to know in 12 months what they think.
by oz_media
I use GMail for free online regustrations and such things as craigslist etc.
I wouldn't consider for half a second even tryign a free, online service for business use. That's like relying on a low cost VoIP solution for your business phone lines!
Either way, both are like having a front door to your business where someone else has the kays and you just hope they turn up and unlock the front door each day so you can work, terrible mistake!!!
I haven't had problems with GMail being down, I have three logins depending on the use, so I don't check every day, once or twice a week at best.
How any company (even home based business) can even consider, using services like Shaw for their INternet and not a managed business grade connection with guaranteed uptime, or free online email service is simply beyond me. Surely there are more disposable ways of cutting operational costs that using unreliable services such as public ISP's and mail, it simply makes no sense at all to cut corners on such imperative parts of your operations.
by forum surfer
But we control all network infrastructure and management. One of the departments uses gmail and constantly chastises us for our in house, over priced email solution.
He, he...I just explained to his director why the entire 1000 staff members were depending on an outside agency for email. I also explained that his might likely never happen again. Then again it could be down next tuesday, too.
On a side note I do find it frustrating since I use gmail to talk to friends and colleagues in other companies and locations regularly through out the day.
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