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Tangentially, what are people using for DNS+e-mail today? Was a happy gandi customer but have migrated to Gandi for DNS and protonmail for e-mail since the Gandi takeover. I am really looking for a No Bullshit™ host for these things.

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I didn't knew Gandi was taken over (I was never a customer).

I recently started to use NS1, which was taken over by IBM. It's nice and fast, comes with a great API, which even their web control panel also uses. The only negative side is that it's now owned by IBM.

I use some RHEL-alike products anyway, so I didn't mind NS1 now being IBM. NS1 doesn't mention any pricing, and I'm using their free developer accounts for my personal sites. I think it will get very expensive really quick once you become enterprise customers.

Cloudflare and fastmail

If you search in the search box I think you’ll be able to find lots of recommendations.

Thanks for the advice!

https://hsm.tunnel53.net/article/just-use-google/

Ooof! Well at least now someone has read my blog (•‿•)

I was just thinking this side-thread was a bit OT. And in my book, there are worlds of difference between Google and using Algolia’s custom HN search, which is really awesome IMHO. (I use it myself multiple times per week.)

But what the heck, I’ll bite and share my recommendations.

I personally prefer this setup:

• Google Workspace for email. FastMail seems to be a very popular alternative, I’ve never tried them. There’s also Tuta and Protonmail but personally I’m not interested in E2EE email. (I much rather use something based on Double Ratchet for comms that need E2EE.)

• Cloudflare for DNS. There are lots of solid options here. E.g. AWS Route 53.

• Dynadot as my registrar. Porkbun seems to be a solid alternative.

HTH!

PS. I know some HN users has made book recommendation compilations based on HN threads. Would be cool if someone made the same for mail/DNS/registrar recommendations :)

Any particular reason you don't use Cloudflare's 'at-cost' registrar?

I guess I use Dynadot mostly out of habit. I’ve found their service to be reliable and stable so I haven’t seen any reason to switch.

Google search advises you to just use Google.

Been using Migadu for emails for the past 3 years. No complaints so far.

Thanks for the advice!

ClouDNS.net + Zoho Mail. I chose ClouDNS as I have a bunch of .pl domains which at other registrars are either unsupported (Porkbun, Route53), unreasonably expensive (e.g. Hetzner Cloud wants €35/yr, ClouDNS €18/yr) or offered without WHOIS privacy screen (Dynadot). I am not excited though about having to pay extra subscription for having more than 1 DNS zone, so I'll be happy to get better recommendations.

I have moved from GoDaddy to DNSimple to Namecheap to finally, recently, Porkbun, which I love.

Fastmail has done me well for many years.

Hostpoint for DomainReg/DNS and Protonmail for Mail.

But being located in switzerland that seems to be the obvious choice, right ;) ?

Never heard of Hostpoint! Thanks for the tip!

Indeed. No privacy/cryptography oriented company in Switzerland was ever a joint BND/CIA operation ;)

Just don’t use Hostpoint for email (have had many bad experiences).

Stick to someone who specializes in email (ie. Gmail/Outlook/Zoho/Fastmail/etc).

i switched everything from Gandi to Porkbun after the takeover - have had 0 issues

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