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I've had way more downtime trying to run my own domain's mailserver for a year than I have with gmail for more than a decade.
by coldpie 6y ago
I've had way more downtime trying to run my own domain's mailserver for a year than I have with gmail for more than a decade.
- ta988 6y agoYou can redirect to a commercial service as well.
- Karunamon 6y agoUse a paid email host, just anything but Google. Life's too short to put up with managing your own email server.
- frongpik 6y agoI switched to a custom domain only when gmail torpedoed one of my secondary gmail accounts.
- nine_k 6y agoIt can as well be Google, just the paid Apps version. Zero time to get used to a different UI. I suspect there must be a solution to easily migrate all your tags and filtering rules. (Tags are the killer feature to me. Outlook sort of has them but they are less flexible.)
- jrochkind1 6y agodoes the paid apps version have better uptime? Is it not affected by the current issues?
- terragon 6y agoMy company has paid apps, and we have been facing issues same as everyone else.
- belorn 6y agoHaving run my own mail server for over a decade, I have yet to have a single time where the server responds by Permanent error of accounts not existing and with email bouncing. Losing incoming email is pretty much the worst case scenario when it come to configuration errors. It about as bad as not having backups, in that both cases results in unrecoverable loss of data.
- Seirdy 6y agoThat's not what I said. With some emphasis added: > When this happens, you can spin up a temporary server and have a mechanism in place to redirect email so you don't go down when your provider does. Use a commercial provider, but fall back to your own server when it goes down without changing your email address.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI see two problems here: The likelihood your service is restored before you spin up your own mail server, and the fact that, not expecting this failure, their DNS may have a fairly lengthy TTL.
- whichquestion 6y agohttps://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/ Can be set up relatively quickly
- imhoguy 6y agoWhat about permanent problem, like suspended account?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIn that case, owning your own domain is golden. I just don't see "spin up your own mail server" as a short term solution.
- brnt 6y agoNot me, and I'm not even paying for the services I've been switching between.