F these managers. It is simply impossible to monitor these type of systems with 100% attention for the vast majority of the population for long periods of time - literally rarely anything happens. It needs a consistant rotation of staff and guarenteed the business will not pay for it. Instead they blame the employees when it is them who are putting the safety of the public at risk.

I don’t work with these signalling systems but have done similar type of tasks. Everyone knows it is not possible but the higher ups know they will never be made responsible for failures so these problems will persist.

I am down to home-brand branded icecream. Used to buy the [supermarket expensive] ice cream but now they are all above the price threshold I am prepared to pay.

Run my own email server - on same box. I don’t know much about email reputation, just know enough and lucky enough to not get my email delivered to spam folder at google mail. Given the AU$ was so weak it became cheaper to host in Au. Excluding the really cheap stuff - i.e. US$2 a month. Not concerned with server monitoring; Azure goes down more often than the cheap crap I use.

I serve static content on a Quantum Core VPS. AU$5 a month. So far I cannot complain, though I am more of a self-hoster than using saas products.