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Comment by taneq | Hacker News Reader

A few years ago I started getting increasingly worried about my Gmail account being a single point of failure for basically my entire life. Along with Google’s evolution into an evil empire this prompted me to completely excise them from my life. It took a couple of years to transition all my less-used accounts to my new email but the peace of mind is worth it.

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So which email provider would you say is more reliable? Self hosting on AWS etc?

Edit:also, how do you replicate access to email/calendars across devices? (smartphones/PC)

If you own the domain then you should still be able to use the account even if you get kicked off of a provider.

And receiving email at your own server is trivial.

For me, it’s cheaper and easier to pay someone else

Yes it's trivial, but I'm asking for a commercial provider one can trust that uses software that doesn't suck horribly and one that doesn't just cut you off immediately if your payment to them fails, or locks your account until you phone them if you try the password too many times etc.

If I wanted to host my own I wouldn't ask about providers...

Email these days is about much more than just email. Calendar integration and sync between devices that lets you access email on said devices as well as resiliency one would want for an essential service mean just "hosting your own" is definitely not trivial.

Then there is antispam etc.

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