[SomeCallMeTim]

> Google doesn't lose my email; I probably will lose my email, because an email server is backed by a database and doing database backups right is hard if that is not your day-job.

I use IMAP email. My email is simultaneously stored on my server and on every client. If the server is nuked, I can set up a new IMAP server elsewhere and sync my email client to it; I'd want to do this from work where I have gigabit internet, or this would take a while, but it can re-upload all the data to the server.

That said, I'm using a managed account. I'm not communicating about anything that I care if the government subpoenas, and I have no plans to.

Unless we end up in a totalitarian state where constructive criticism of the government becomes an offense. But in that case my public posts would be more than enough to convict me without looking at my emails.