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Buy your own domain, you control the MX record.

• newscracker 10y ago
  Right, but it still needs an email service provider to point to (and I wouldn't want to run it myself for various reasons). And the providers I've seen are expensive (for me).
  • KMag 10y ago
    Did Google stop offering a free tier for Apps For Your Domain? I guess I missed the part about being grandfathered in.
    • bdcravens 10y ago
      Yes. It's now $5/month/user. (plans are grandfathered however)
      • overcast 10y ago
        You also get 1TB of storage with that, and unlimited storage with 5+ accounts. I do this for my family, and we all have unlimited backups and custom domain email.
        • alphapapa 10y ago
          What client software do you use to access the storage and to backup to it? Is it reliable and cross-platform, by any chance? =)
          • overcast 10y ago
            I use Arq https://www.arqbackup.com https://www.arqbackup.com Encrypts everything, and manages the revisions. Available for Mac and Windows. I use for Mac.
    • newscracker 10y ago
      Luckily, I do have a grandfathered plan where I can use Google Apps for my domain for free. But as I mentioned in another comment, I'm trying to reduce my linkages with Google, Facebook and others for privacy reasons. That's one of the reasons why I don't use that much (the other issue is dealing with changing my email addresses with everyone else I've shared those with - ad based free email providers like Yahoo do not offer mail forwarding out of their platforms for free).