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by randallsquared 4533 days ago
Easy problems can become nearly impossible at scale.
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I'll take GMail with 99% uptime over running Horde in my basement with 100% uptime.
You get 100% uptime from your ISP? Dang. Where can I sign up?
Yep. If something has a "one in a million" chance of occurring, you'll run into it 17 times per hour (based on Comscore's Sept 2013 estimates of Google search volume)