Lotus Domino
Groupware server in Hosting & cloud
People recommend it as rock solid, low-maintenance, and able to handle heavy load. The common caveat is dated LotusScript and limits on database size and modern web support.
People recommend it as rock solid, low-maintenance, and able to handle heavy load. The common caveat is dated LotusScript and limits on database size and modern web support.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 79%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Rock solid, low maintenance
“It was great, handled incredible amounts of load, and required little maintenance.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” “it kept ticking along. just didnt let users make changes. Amazing stuff.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” “Domino server was rock solid I never had to worry about it at all.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” - Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”
Handles heavy load, performant
“It was great, handled incredible amounts of load, and required little maintenance.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” “The Linux one was incredibly performant compared to the Windows one.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” Easy to migrate and run
“migrating a Domino server was incredibly easy”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch” “Domino server made it easy(ish).”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch” Runs on AS/400 and Linux
“It was. I did some I.T. consulting in the Fortune 500 and a few ran Notes on the AS/400.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes” “The Linux one was incredibly performant compared to the Windows one.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “LotusNotes”
What people said
All 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I was administering a small Domino server and using Notes for email. I think it was the worst thing I worked on at the time.”
“It was funny I recall never having much to do on the domino server”
“it was always crippled by limitations on maximum database size, lack of XML / JSON support”
“migrating a Domino server was incredibly easy”
“Domino server made it easy(ish).”
“It was great, handled incredible amounts of load, and required little maintenance.”
“The Linux one was incredibly performant compared to the Windows one.”
“you still had to do semi-manual memory management, which made it tough for most Java programmers”
“It was. I did some I.T. consulting in the Fortune 500 and a few ran Notes on the AS/400.”
“Domino could perhaps have survived, but it needed more than the anaemic LotusScript”
“I was the accidental admin of a mail and document server based on it”
“IBM convinced a client they should run Domino on the iSeries that was running their factory.”
“it kept ticking along. just didnt let users make changes. Amazing stuff.”
“the Domino server could have lived on as a back end database for web applications”
“Domino server was rock solid I never had to worry about it at all.”
“Before ~2007 they allowed you to use open-source Pidgin to connect to the Domino servers.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.