This is the twenty-first post in the 2017 FastMail Advent Calendar. The previous post was a design spotlight on the Topicbox logo. The next post is about our response to the GDPR. Monitoring is a critical part of any complex system. If you’re not monitoring your system properly, you
This is the twenty-first post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Something people ask us fairly often when considering signing up with us is "do you support push?". The simple answer is "yes", but there's some confusion around what people
From around 5am on the morning of Sunday 7 February (6pm 6 Feb UTC, 1pm 6 Feb US East), FastMail was unavailable for almost two hours. In this post we'll take a look at what happened, why it happened and what we're doing to restore our reputation as one of
This is the eighth post in the FastMail 2015 Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Last month we were hit by a DDoS attack. Over the course of that week we learned a lot about this style of attack and how to protect against it. This post documents
This is the third post in the FastMail 2015 Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. A few months ago we happened to be looking at graphs of CPU load on some of our backend mail servers, and we noticed that over time our servers have gotten busier. As
