I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.
While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?
The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?
I do this!
I use purelymail, it’s only $10 a year and self described as a “Cheap, no-nonsense email” i’ve been using this service for a little over a year with my own domain names and haven’t had any issues yet. I love it. They have an easy to follow tutorial for setting up your own domain names to work with their email
Another vote for purelymail, here, @[email protected]. Easy to set up and I’ve got full dmarc/dkim/spf. You can pay the flat $10/yr, or you can pay- for-what-you-use. I don’t send a lot of attachments, personally, so my estimated bill is like $4.50.