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by felipeqq2 1279 days ago
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.
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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.
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.