I made a move around 10 years ago. My needs were simple - email and html. But where I was going was hardly internet friendly. I may get a kicking for saying

I made a move around 10 years ago. My needs were simple - email and html. But where I was going was hardly internet friendly. I may get a kicking for saying this, and it may not be your need but may fit the needs of some other HN users viewing this (shared hosting options often get criticised); I have found Dreamhost, over these 10 years, able to consistently work well for my three needs: IMAP, SSH and hosting HTML files (FTP too). They're sufficiently big to stay in business, while sufficiently small to fly under the radar of country or corporate based firewalls. These days I have a DigitalOcean instance. Maintaining a server securely is a full time job. You seem OK with that - a lot of people may not be - so just dropping this 'droplet' in with the mix.