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0 pointslaurent1234563y ago0 comments

Since he uses his own domain, he can move elsewhere if there's a problem with Google. I do that too, and it's indeed much simpler than self-hosting.

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hedora3y ago

On that note, I have amazon manage my custom domain.

Now I'm terrified that I'll return one too many pairs of socks or something, and get the retail consumer part of my account banned (we buy a lot of stuff on Amazon).

Does anyone have experience with what happens to AWS resources (specifically, domains) when that happens?

nottorp3y ago

It sounded like he's actually keeping the emails on google, even though they come on a custom domain. And that doesn't seem safe to me.

dmje3y ago

I use a client, so have a local IMAP backup, and regularly back this up to my NAS.

That's not really my worry, though. What scares me about being heavily invested in blah@gmail.com or blah@notmydomain.com is lockout from services. As long as I have my own domain then I can just switch out the DNS and I'll still be able to get into whatever web service I signed up to using my email address.

laurent123456OP3y ago

For backup he could get Thunderbird or similar to fetch the emails are regular interval. I think it's generally a good idea to do so.

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