I've used Fastmail for several years now with no issues apart from a slowdown in the phone app a few months back (website still loaded fine). It's a bit more ex

I've used Fastmail for several years now with no issues apart from a slowdown in the phone app a few months back (website still loaded fine). It's a bit more expensive at $50/year/user (about $4.17/month), but you get 25GB of combined mail and file storage, contact/calendar/note syncing, simple static web hosting that's good in a pinch, a very nice web front end, and superb customer support. Not affiliated with them just a happy customer. It's still putting all your eggs in one basket in a sense, but being a paid service there's a sense of privacy, security, and permanence that Gmail and the other free providers don't offer. I do own my own domain as well, and I have mail accounts tied to it that I use for certain services and communications, mostly medical and local businesses, but I'm still at the mercy of my hosting provider for that domain. With that said, my provider (Tiger Technologies) has been astoundingly awesome and has never let me down in 12+ years of service.