Rémy Giard’s blog

Past few weeks, i was looking for an application where i could keep a categorized and easily updated list of tasks. Looking at what is most popular, i found RememberTheMilk. More, i could use it in iGoogle.

After testing it since a couple of weeks, i was feeling comfortable to use it to keep my day time job tasks. While being in the last days before our application’s delivery, the site has been down from this morning through 17h00 because of broken hardware. Being in a critical period, it was not time for this kind of shutdown.

I know, it is not safe to rely on an external resources for critical data. I knew it, but i felt confident that rememberthemilk was set and ready for those unpredictables events. There are public since few years, they seem to be established. Well, they were not ready ! They should have think about it while building their disaster plan. If it had been one or two hours, it is not that bad, but a whole day …

My conclusion : DO NOT RELY ON EXTERNAL RESOURCES FOR CRITICAL DATA !!

Well, i am not mad at rememberthemilk, i could work with the tasks i had in mind, but this event reduce the image of stability i had about the product. And sadly, tomorrow morning i’ll have to eat my two peanuts butter toasts and my Froot Loops without milk.

** Update  : Here is their explanation