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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by doubled112 on Saturday June 07, 2025 @06:39PM (#44213147)
This is my plan.

I will lose some email history, but at least I don’t lose my email future.

However, you can’t own a domain, you are just borrowing it. There is still a risk that gets shut down too, but I don’t think it is super common.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by noAnswer on Saturday June 07, 2025 @08:16PM (#44213601)
Why should you lose some email history? Just move the mails to a differente folder.

I self host my mails but still use a freemail for the contact address for my providers. No chicken and egg problem for me.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by danillonunes on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:37PM (#44213423)
As for the domain risks, my suggestions is to stick with the .com/.net/.org or something common in your country and avoid novelty ones such as .app, .dev, etc, even if you can't get the shortest and simpler name. And if you have some money to spare, just renew it to 10 years.
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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by data-ottawa on Saturday June 07, 2025 @11:24PM (#44214344)
Even if you renew for 10 years, set a calendar reminder annually to check in and make sure your renewal info is still good.
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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by spencerflem on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:15PM (#44219235)
You can also top it up every year as well. Two for one :)
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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by JoshTriplett on Saturday June 07, 2025 @06:42PM (#44213160)
> I will lose some email history, but at least I don’t lose my email future.

I back up all my email every day, independent of my hosting provider. I have an automatic nightly sync to my laptop, which happens right before my nightly laptop backups.

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