This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/04/2018 06:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Another example I read on HackerNews today:
> 
> "I recall that during their most recent s3 outage Amazon's status page 
> was green across the board, because somehow all the assets that were 
> supposed to be displayed when things went wrong were themselves hosted 
> on the thing that was down."
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913302
> 
> This is just so basic, folks.

I absolutely hate webmail (and not being able to spin up arbitrary 
amounts of specific-purpose email addresses). So years ago, I added a 
mailserver of my own to my webserver.

I made absolutely certain to use a *gmail* account (much as I hate 
gmail) and not one of my own self-hosted accounts, as my technical 
contact for all my server-related services. It's saved my ass many times.