Hosting my company's Infrastructure

Move to an hosting company.
That line was my answer every time a small company would come to me asking for a recomendation for deploying thir mail, calendar or whatever service they wanted.
The logic behind it is pretty simple, if you build your own email server, you're not going to be able to spend enough to match a good hosting service uptime, redudancy and management tools.

So, when the time came to create my own company (and I promise my second post will be my introduction), I decided to eat my own dog food and host everything and, google's offer of free (and being google) was hard to beat.


As with most things in I.T. the cheap comes out to bite you when you least expect it and, the experience I'm having so far it's been so bad that I'm not recommending google's services to anyone and I in fact, stopped recomending a shared infrastructure solution to anyone who asks me.

I hope this blog starts to be the first step into changing my view on google's work. I trully like the company and I want them to have sucess but, not at the expense of one of my precious comodities - time.

So, this is the inaugurating post of this weblog. more than a rant, an statement of hope that things get changed to better serve users.