The thing is, would you do better if you host all your stuff yourself? I know I wouldn't - so far Gmail has been down far less than my own mail server. Every n

The thing is, would you do better if you host all your stuff yourself? I know I wouldn't - so far Gmail has been down far less than my own mail server. Every now and then an update on my server breaks some stuff and I have to spend a few hours of my precious time fixing it. So far Google has saved me more time and hassle than when I host stuff myself, even with all the Google downtime.