I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.
While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?
The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?
I started using https://purelymail.com/ because they’re $10/year. Been happy with them, but I don’t use/need any fancy features. Hosted on AWS, if you care about that. Their domain instructions are https://purelymail.com/docs/domainDocs
+1 for Purelymail! Cool thing is that the 10$/year is also for unlimited domains and subdomains, so I have split my mails into a bunch of different inboxes. Makes it a lot easier to filter out spam and figure out which services sell email addresses to advertisers
Thanks, the docs you linked really made it clear how the domain is connected in practice.