Solid, reliable are very desired but you have to also consider, support, trust and control. I know this is difficult and painful but not impossible and really

Solid, reliable are very desired but you have to also consider, support, trust and control. I know this is difficult and painful but not impossible and really worth. Recent news of gitlab moving out of cloud to own infra is worth looking. These [1,2] are worth looking at. For a start, here is a very brief answer. I'm sorry if it doesn't answer your question neatly. One of my seniors gave me this advice and I am more than indebted for that. For anything (e.g. data, email) you think is critical for you, you should try to host it yourself (on prem or VPS) and (not or) some backup with a company which you trust. e.g. Your email address should be yours, you may still forward lot of your email to gmail but you don't use the gmail address for anything critical. Fastmail for email, backblaze for backup may also be good alternatives. Disclaimer: not affiliated to fastmail/backblaze; though a happy user. The advantage is you get good support from these guys and it's well worth the price. Again it's not simple and one has to do a serious cost/benefit analysis. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_moving_away_from_the_cloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_movin...