folks,i know this is OT but i decided to post here as i’m sure there are a lot of people here that work in IT and know what thay are talking about. The recent MS failure is what i would like your opinion on.
from what I’ve seen, MS declared that a bunch of servers went offline and the load had to be spread on remaining servers. They fail to identify what caused the first bunch of servers encountering issues and they claim it was mot related to a hacker attack (why would they, it would lead to massive panic and distrust). So, then what caused the issue in the first place? Could it have been a piloted denail of service attack?
I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione. In the meantime i rejoyce for not having to depend of third party infrastructure at home, thanks to my little homelab.
A further consideration is that this does once again prove that companies that put all their eggs in one basket, are at yhe mercy of big tech. i experienced this personally at works where comunication by Teams and Outlooks was pretty much halted for hours.
Yes, this is basically a bunch of home lab enthusiasts. There’s nothing wrong with that but doing it for even a small business of 50 people is extremely different in terms of requirements.
Yeah, any time someone says “I’m thinking about hosting for a business” my answer is “run away screaming”. Or set up as a business yourself. Never ever provide for a business as an individual, especially not without being paid enough to insure yourself.
Have you spent any time in these ‘home lab enthusiasts’ spaces? Nobody here is suggesting that you should go and self host email. Nobody is making it sound easy. In fact if you look at posts talking about email, almost every time the subject of email comes up you have a significant portion of the community saying it’s outright not worth self hosting email. It’s such a time consuming and opaque process to figure out why email isn’t being sent or received that few do so.