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Features for the curious:
- 2 GB email account
- 100% green electricity
- Saved data can be encrypted data
- Two-factor auth
- Ad-free
- Sign up without personal details
I'm not related with them in any way, just a customer. The only con is that you can't use your own domain.
I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
It's a good point thought. I use Gmail as my primary email for quite a few things, and my other email is also a free service. What am I to do if I need support for either of these? What email provider should I use?
I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
I use https://posteo.de/en and am very happy so far, it's 1 EUR per month. Features for the curious: - 2 GB email account - 100% green electricity - Saved data can be encrypted data - Two-factor auth - Ad-free - Sign up without personal details I'm not related with them in any way, just a customer. The only con is that you can't use your own domain.
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Whatever provider you choose, use your own domain. Then you can always switch.
Thats the easy part. But if there are no good providers, it doesnt matter that you can switch to the next bad one.
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¹) On a leased hardware, network and address, but with proper backup and failover strategies, hosting providers are interchangeable (or one can always host on their own hardware) and it's somewhat less likely ICANN or your local registrar would yank your domain name registration than Google would do so to your account.
²) There are (nearly) one-click solutions for this, like https://cozy.io/ or https://sandstorm.io/
Last time I saw this on HN it was something like an art professor who'd been storing pictures of cherubs or something and it had tripped Google's child-porn detector. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810946
I also suspect of a problem with my credit card.
But Google refuses to tell me what was wrong.
The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in. Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
I use fastmail.com for electronic mail, and I gladly pay for it. Marvel at the simplicity: you pay for a service, and the provider's incentive is to serve you! This versus the alternative where you use a "service" provided free of cost, and the "provider" makes money by selling data they have harvested from your interactions. You give away your privacy; you have no reason to expect support; you are not actually the c…
I use https://posteo.de/en and am very happy so far, it's 1 EUR per month. Features for the curious: - 2 GB email account - 100% green electricity - Saved data can be encrypted data - Two-factor auth - Ad-free - Sign up without personal details I'm not related with them in any way, just a customer. The only con is that you can't use your own domain.
I'm also looking to move my domain from Google Apps, I'll consider Posteo. Thanks.