Stop using gmail.com for things you care about

Post by emdd » Sun, Jul 10, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

SNvD7vEJ wrote: post #40

gpm wrote: post #36

And what's the alternative? I could use an ISP (or in my case university) email, but I'll lose access to that in the future when I change ISPs (or graduate). I could use , but they will probably have the same problem, and unless I'm using one of the other giant services (e.g. outlook) are probably more likely to disappear than Google is to randomly ban me. I could use a paid provider, but they are probably still more…

The solution is to register your own domain.

Post by the_common_man » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #25

eximius wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats the easy part. But if there are no good providers, it doesnt matter that you can switch to the next bad one.

If there are no good providers, you can always set up your own¹², or hire an engineer to do this for you. ___ 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 you…