I always wonder what has higher risks: me, hosting my own mail, maybe getting hacked, or a gmail user, risking being locked out forever due to posting something inappropiate in a youtube comment.
I'm all in with Google. All my business email and services are as a paying G-Suite customer. I have my business email pull in email from all my other non-biz accounts.
The experience as a paying Google customer seems to eliminate the oft-repeated complaints people have about Google.
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I get technical support, with a real person, should I need it. (and I've needed it) The experience was fantastic. YMMV, of course.
I keep a backup copy of my email, off of Google infra, should any of the worst-case scenarios take place.
It's orthogonal to this discussion, but if I could do all of my coding from a Chromebook, the experience would be complete. I've had issues in the last 24 hours with both a Mac, and a Windows machine and it was Chromebook to the rescue. It just doesn't have the same level of functionality, as you already well know.
Haha I hope you're not being serious. If I had to estimate the probability of Google ever blocking my account over my life time I'd say 0.01%, whereas the probability of someone successfully attacking my mail server/dns records/... if I really became a target would be easily 100%.
Oh, I'm completely serious. Random bots attacking my server, sure, but that's not what I meant, the real problem is targeted attacks and spearfishing.
The difference is: I can move my domain, I can move my server to another system, build defenses, if needed, whereas who's gmail address gets blocked or reused (though this latter is more frequent with tumblr and instagram handles), there are no options.
The experience as a paying Google customer seems to eliminate the oft-repeated complaints people have about Google. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I get technical support, with a real person, should I need it. (and I've needed it) The experience was fantastic. YMMV, of course.
I keep a backup copy of my email, off of Google infra, should any of the worst-case scenarios take place.
It's orthogonal to this discussion, but if I could do all of my coding from a Chromebook, the experience would be complete. I've had issues in the last 24 hours with both a Mac, and a Windows machine and it was Chromebook to the rescue. It just doesn't have the same level of functionality, as you already well know.