Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues

Post by imzadi » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

aarondong wrote: post #4

literally signed up for proton mail, their yearly paid plan, around half an hour ago. I assumed an email service was supposed to be stable first, given how important it is. I was going to use proton mail as my contact email with my domain registrar. This outage may change my mind. REFUND?

Post by aarondong » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

imzadi wrote: post #11

aarondong wrote: post #4

literally signed up for proton mail, their yearly paid plan, around half an hour ago. I assumed an email service was supposed to be stable first, given how important it is. I was going to use proton mail as my contact email with my domain registrar. This outage may change my mind. REFUND?

I've had proton for years and have no complaints. I can only think of one or two other outages in that time. Most services do have outages from time to time. tbf, I don't seem to be having any issues with proton today, so far.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #12

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All services have outages. The difference is that when Outlook goes out ( https://uptime.qodex.ai/outlook/incidents ), it's a happy occasion because nobody can work and we all take an hour off, but when something like Proton goes offline, we're the only ones who can't access our important stuff. Anyway, point is, Proton is generally very reliable, but shit happens.

> All services have outages. I've found this to be true too, that's why I've moved most of my personal email to my own email servers, so at least I can decide when those outages happen, as they tend to mostly happen when you do some changes, not just randomly by themselves. At once you've setup monitoring and recovery for the usual suspects (disks, network, etc).

Post by surgical_fire » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

aarondong wrote: post #4

literally signed up for proton mail, their yearly paid plan, around half an hour ago. I assumed an email service was supposed to be stable first, given how important it is. I was going to use proton mail as my contact email with my domain registrar. This outage may change my mind. REFUND?

Post by spacephysics » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

Saris wrote: post #18

aarondong wrote: post #4

literally signed up for proton mail, their yearly paid plan, around half an hour ago. I assumed an email service was supposed to be stable first, given how important it is. I was going to use proton mail as my contact email with my domain registrar. This outage may change my mind. REFUND?

What made you pick proton over something like mailbox.org? You'd get calendar and contacts sync, IMAP and POP access, custom domains, really nice webmail, and so on.. Proton seems really limited for what you get, and the webmail is absolutely abysmal in performance and design.