[felipeqq2]

I think it's important to at least own your email domain, so you can keep your address when changing hosts. Hosting myself is too much of a hassle, so I go with PurelyMail. It's wonderfully cheap and works great. Had no issues with delivery so far.

[ocdtrekkie]

Exactly, even folks using Gmail still (for some reason) have an escape hatch if they use their own domain. But if they use @gmail.com, they are basically using someone else's email address... one where the true owner, Google, has every right to revoke it at any time.

[mariusor]

I'd like to add my endorsement for PurelyMail.

It's been a reliable (for the past 4 years I've used it) solution, with easy setup and laughably small cost. Currently it costs me about $0.3 per month to host personal mail for multiple domains (only one having some moderate activity in fairness).

All of these are mostly personal emails, I haven't tried to send large amount of emails to test their outgoing policies.