I use a custom domain and forward all mail to a web based email provider for this reason. If my provider drops me, I can move to another and update my forwarding. There’s still a risk I could lose the domain somehow, but I don’t hear about that happening nearly as often.
I do this as well. I encourage people to own their own domain and use that for email; it is more complex to set up, but you have far more control long term.
I do this as well but with anonaddy.com which acts more like a proxy than forwarding. The yearly price is low (something like $12) to use your own domain and much lower than paid email plans.
