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I'm going through the process of switching off of Gmail and onto a Fastmail account under my own domain. I'm loving the freedom of having my own domain that I c
by justin_oaks 4y ago
I'm going through the process of switching off of Gmail and onto a Fastmail account under my own domain. I'm loving the freedom of having my own domain that I can switch to another email provider whenever I want. Also, Fastmail with a custom domain has some nice features that were unavailable with a Gmail account (aliases, masked emails, automatically snoozing certain emails so I get a bunch all at once, etc.)
As for pictures, I do use Google Photos, but it's not my primary photo video store. It's more for the app that lets me lookup pictures.
For storing original versions of pictures/videos, I sync from my phone to a home computer using Syncthing, and store backups of my files on AWS S3 using Restic for encrypted backups.
If I lose Google Photos, no big deal. I still have local and cloud copies of my data.
- eek2121 4y agoThis is definitely not a plug, but I'm actually working on an alternative to email, cloud storage, authentication/authorization/sso/etc. solutions from Google, Microsoft, etc. and one of my specific focuses is to allow free personal use and free smaller company use. It is refreshing to see I'm not building this in a vacuum. I started the project for no other reason except Google yanking out their free accounts. I absolutely do plan to commercialize it, however, I would still be happy with the result even if it failed, since under Google's pricing, I'd pay more than $1,000 a year vs. less than $10/year with my own solution.
- wan_ala 4y agoHow does it work exactly? This sounds pretty cool
- evulhotdog 4y agoPlease share more info about how we can follow your current or future project!