That's my main concern with Gmail and Drive. On the other hand I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider.
> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider.
This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass is always greener on the other side. To be fair, Google’s customer service is non-existent though.
Thing is, with other providers, all I'm getting is email. With Google, I'm getting a bunch of services, all interconnected, and any of them could potentially get my entire Google account banned. One of the fuck ups I can recall is a bunch of people getting their Google account banned because they typed in chat of a Youtube livestream and some algorithm falsely picked it up, cutting them off from everything.
I own the domain, I control DNS, I pay a provider for email, and my phone and laptop have full downloads via IMAP. The last step aside I don't think that is an uncommon setup. Uptime might be worse, I don't know that there is a real problem there losing access.
This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass is always greener on the other side. To be fair, Google’s customer service is non-existent though.