Looking to start the process, and want to host my own domain for email so I don’t have to repeat this when changing email providers in the future again. Does anyone have any recommendations of solid ones with a focus on privacy and are reliable? I’ve heard Namecheap is good, but would love other recommendations.
If you’re new to running your own domain, a bit of advice I’d give is to separate your domain hosting and your DNS. So register via, say, Namecheap, and set your NS records there to point at a DNS provider like Cloudflare where you keep the records for that domain. That way if one of them goes down for an extended period or belly up, you don’t lose access since you can move the nameservers to a different DNS provider or transfer the domain because you still can prove you have control of the DNS. Basic root server caching will keep you up for a long time if you split that way.
Namecheap doesn’t allow setting up Tor instances or Torrents, try Porkbun.
They limit what you can do on your own domain? Or are you talking about their other services?
They do if you use their hosting services:
It applies to domains too, check point 6. https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/registration-agreement/
Yeah but OP is talking about domains.
Porkbun is good
I use porkbun and pay crypto
I use Njalla, founded by one of the guys behind The Pirate Bay. Maybe it’s a bit unconventional of an option, but it works nicely. I don’t think you can get more focus on privacy anywhere :)
I’m not sure about the focus on privacy, but DreamHost has been pretty reliable for me. I have my custom domain routed to Proton for email (got a two year plan before all the politics came out… blarg).
ive been with https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for almost 15 years. theyve been awesome… their site looks minimal because its run by a bunch of linux geeks who wanted people to only have to pay for what they use. its purpose-driven, and very functional.
also, they offer obfuscation services for hiding your ownership details.
NFS is amazing! That reminds me, I don’t think I’ve logged into the web UI in maybe 5 years and things have just been running smoothly regardless. I should check out what they’ve been up to.
its almost comically the same. they dont seem to change anything without a solid, practical reason so their interface has been unchanged.
you can tell they dont have executives forcing change for changes sake like so many terrible businesses coughredditcough.
This is really cool, never heard of these guys before. Thank you!
Now, if only I could find another email provider that’s good that isn’t Proton…
i think the proton hate is debatable
Thank you for this article. I’m a proton user and had been a bit concerned. The “little guys” comment especially bothered my when I first read it, but the take from this article makes sense. Appreciate you.
Tuta is the closets to Proton ID you’re looking for just strictly email. Otherwise I’d suggest Fastmail. But also depends what you’re looking for in the provider. I went with fastmail as they help develop open-standards such as jmap instead of imap. They also to encrypt all data at rest and own all their own hardware. This was what sold it for me at least. Good luck 👍
