http://gigaom.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113242 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:11:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113242 I’m currently in South-east Asia and HotMail doesn’t seem to work more than – at best – a few times a week. I’m not a user myself, but meeting people all the time who are more than a little exasperated and desperate. I don’t know if it’s Hotmail’s technology or blocking from local ISPs. It’s the same in several countries, though.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113241 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:29:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113241 gmail seems unavailable several times a day. Is this a web2 app scale issue or just not a priority for google.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113240 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:19:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113240 And if you go back seven or eight years to when they ran on Sun boxes instead of Windows machines, you could lose a few more servers.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113239 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:28:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/what-makes-hotmail-work/#comment-113239 and if you cut the spam, you could lose half the servers

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