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Old 19 Jun 2022, 09:00 PM   #10
alexu2007
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The main email account, that I use with banks, medical services, house utility contracts and other contracts is at protonmail. I use the paid plan with my domain. I paid for my domain for 10 years in advance, it is a .pm domain and I registered it at infomaniak.com, this way it was about 50 $ for 10 years.

Using a paid plan, I have access to their bridge and I backup every week my account with https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/ , a great email backup utility, free for home use.

Also I use cloudflare as DNS provider for my domain. Lately Cloudflare started a new service, email forwarding for your domain. This way, if something happens at Protonmail, I can activate the email forwarding from Cloudflare account and redirect my emails to another backup email address. And because Cloudflare is so fast in updating the dns records and have so fast propagation, the downtime should be minimum.

You can find who is the cheapest registrar with the posibility to filter the registered or the renewal price here: https://tld-list.com/ . However, take into consideration the ratings of the registrars, some of them are really bad. I use Regery which seems to be ok until now even if it's based in Ucraine, infomaniak.com and porkbun as main registrar.

I also use the protonmail's drive to store online the scan copies of my important documents. It's also e2e encrypted so if someone is able to access them, then those who can break the encryption or backdoor access my account they surely have the power to bribe some clercks and to get copies of my documents from the authorities who issued them.

The second email account is on my vps, I got one from https://contabo.com/en/vps/ , the smallest one. Also I paid for a personal directadmin licence (24$ / year) but this is optional, you can make it work just with the vps and the iRedMail https://docs.iredmail.org/install.ir...an.ubuntu.html . Contabo does not block the 25 port and I have 10/10 mark from https://www.mail-tester.com/ and I never had any problems with email delivery to microsoft or google.

The third email account is at purelymail.com. They have a lot of settings that you can tweak and I like the simplicity of the service. I never encountered any problems with them in the last year.

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