• kubica@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’ve learned my lesson before. Google products don’t last, so I prefer to not get used to them at all. I’m only slightly confident in the search engine and the mail existing. Although not sure in what form.

    • thanevim@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      With how Google marched backwards on cloud storage since the turn of the decade, GMail is getting even less promising. Once my wife and I finally move out of here, I’m going 100% self hosted, setting up my own email server, et al

      • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        42
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I work at a small company and one of my many hats is “the only IT guy”. I promise you, you don’t want to self host email. You will always be in spam filter hell and you’ll never really know if the email you sent actually made it to the destination until it’s too late.

        Buy a domain, pay for an email provider, and hook them up. If you ever get upset with your email provider, find a new one and switch out the connections. That way, your email address never changes but where it’s stored can be.