Comments on: Custom SMTP server – a solution for better Feedburner email service? http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/ Technology Social Media Blogging Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:07:57 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rahul Bansal http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57461 Rahul Bansal Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:37:45 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57461 <b>@Gaurav</b> I think delicious acquisition is worst acquisition in history. In fact Yahoo treated delicious so badly that delicious founder resigned from Yahoo. (<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/19/it-gets-worse-for-yahoo-delicious-founder-leaving/" rel="nofollow">link</a>) There was a post on some long time back about how Google acquired a service and then almost shut it down. The guys who created that service originally was so annoyed that he quit Google. I really admire Mark Zuckerberg for his guts to run Facebook on his own despite acquisition attempts by all giants. @Gaurav
I think delicious acquisition is worst acquisition in history. In fact Yahoo treated delicious so badly that delicious founder resigned from Yahoo. (link)
There was a post on some long time back about how Google acquired a service and then almost shut it down. The guys who created that service originally was so annoyed that he quit Google.
I really admire Mark Zuckerberg for his guts to run Facebook on his own despite acquisition attempts by all giants.

]]> By: Gaurav http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57246 Gaurav Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:33:20 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57246 Thats right Rahul , it is actually an ease to have my google account login being used for most of the services, but hey... I am dependent on Google for half of my online activity - Search, Docs, Gmail, blogger, you tube, reader... and don't know what. This has been the case with Delicious too, after Yahoo acquired it, it was updated only yesterday. Thats right Rahul , it is actually an ease to have my google account login being used for most of the services, but hey… I am dependent on Google for half of my online activity – Search, Docs, Gmail, blogger, you tube, reader… and don’t know what. This has been the case with Delicious too, after Yahoo acquired it, it was updated only yesterday.

]]> By: Rahul Bansal http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57183 Rahul Bansal Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:29 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-57183 <b>@Pavan & Gaurav</b> I personally find these acquisition is a bad news for end users. First they monopolize market. Next most acquisition aimed for killing competition. @Pavan & Gaurav
I personally find these acquisition is a bad news for end users.
First they monopolize market. Next most acquisition aimed for killing competition.

]]> By: Gaurav http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56771 Gaurav Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:40:21 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56771 Digg surely would have been a bad deal for Google, it is just a different social bookmarking service. With Knol they have come face to face with Wiki and Digg is just a primate for Google to develop. Digg surely would have been a bad deal for Google, it is just a different social bookmarking service. With Knol they have come face to face with Wiki and Digg is just a primate for Google to develop.

]]> By: Pavan Kumar http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56325 Pavan Kumar Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:16:26 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56325 Google is most likely to acquire more services than they develop... even there were some news about google acquiring digg, if that happens and google is not ready to upgrade the digg system with increasing traffic, that too is going to suffer in coming days. Google is most likely to acquire more services than they develop… even there were some news about google acquiring digg, if that happens and google is not ready to upgrade the digg system with increasing traffic, that too is going to suffer in coming days.

]]> By: Rahul Bansal http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56199 Rahul Bansal Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:06 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-56199 <b>@Gaurav</b> With custom SMTP server, it will be our responsibility to choose a nice server. If anything goes wrong, fault will be our only. :-) <b>@Pavan</b> If you remember, Google acquired FeedBurner not so long ago and I think they haven't invested further in infrastructure. They already purchased it with heavy cost and then also made PRO services free. By the way we all know how worst is Orkut service. So many bugs, bad server error, privacy, security and lots of issues on Orkut keep it in news. ;-) In large companies like Google, its obvious that resources are allocated on per project basis. For instance server down error is least known of Search engine but very common on Orkut. Now I don't think Orkut gets more traffic than Google Search! @Gaurav
With custom SMTP server, it will be our responsibility to choose a nice server. If anything goes wrong, fault will be our only. :-)

@Pavan
If you remember, Google acquired FeedBurner not so long ago and I think they haven’t invested further in infrastructure. They already purchased it with heavy cost and then also made PRO services free.

By the way we all know how worst is Orkut service. So many bugs, bad server error, privacy, security and lots of issues on Orkut keep it in news. ;-)

In large companies like Google, its obvious that resources are allocated on per project basis.
For instance server down error is least known of Search engine but very common on Orkut. Now I don’t think Orkut gets more traffic than Google Search!

]]> By: Pavan Kumar http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-55786 Pavan Kumar Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:47:44 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-55786 You are right Rahul, but I don't think it would be a load on feedburner smtp servers. Because we know the qos with gmail and google apps mail. They are very instant. Just what we need is reliability. How about other such services. My suggestions for feedburner regarding email subs: <i><b>Provide option to deliver emails as and when the feed gets updated rather than custom time schedule. If you want to provide custom schedule only, provide us a map which tells how many are using at what time so that there could be a load balance on the servers.</b></i> You are right Rahul, but I don’t think it would be a load on feedburner smtp servers. Because we know the qos with gmail and google apps mail. They are very instant. Just what we need is reliability. How about other such services.

My suggestions for feedburner regarding email subs:

Provide option to deliver emails as and when the feed gets updated rather than custom time schedule.

If you want to provide custom schedule only, provide us a map which tells how many are using at what time so that there could be a load balance on the servers.

]]> By: Gaurav http://devilsworkshop.org/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-55583 Gaurav Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:34:45 +0000 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/29/custom-smtp-server-a-solution-for-better-feedburner-email-service/#comment-55583 Right Idea Rahul, just someone from Feedburner or Google overhears it. Won't it be bad to Feedburner's reputation if the custom SMTP servers are down? A normal reader won't know the fact its not feedburner's fault but the Blogger's one. Right Idea Rahul, just someone from Feedburner or Google overhears it.
Won’t it be bad to Feedburner’s reputation if the custom SMTP servers are down? A normal reader won’t know the fact its not feedburner’s fault but the Blogger’s one.

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