This is the twenty-second post in the Fastmail Advent 2024 series. The previous post was Dec 21: Fastmail In A Box. Check back tomorrow for another post. Why we use our own hardware There has recently been talk of cloud repatriation where companies are moving from the cloud to on premises, with some particularly noisy examples. Fastmail has a long history of using our own hardware. We have over two decades of experience running and optimising our systems to use our own bare metal servers efficie...