As far as email is concerned, both Gmail and others, what Marc says!
Piers
On 3 Oct 2016 8:55 a.m., "Marc Lawrence" <ozlangur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3 October 2016 at 18:18, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > So, might I ask for recommendations for a Web host? And what are
> opinions
> > about using gmail vs. getting an address tied to my domain? Some of the
> Web
> > providers include a couple of email addresses in their packages.
> > ...
>
>
> I'm no tech, I'm just a dumber that has a couple of domains.
>
> I use Dreamhost for my domains. To be honest, I don't know if there's
> better, I've used them for years, they seem pretty professional and
> communicative at what they do, pretty stable, enable lots of good stuff for
> free or cheap (free security certificates, free domain entry privacy, free
> software installs for packages like Wordpress, low-cost website malware
> checker) and your interests seem to be at their heart (I'm not saying
> there's nobility in this, I'm just saying they seem to know which side
> their bread is buttered). Their web panel makes a lot of things easy, be
> it account management, domain management, installs, etc. (though
> "one-click" install might be a smidge of an exaggeration). I like them, but
> I fall to others' opinions due to my limited data set of experience (one).
>
> Saying all that, even though I have email addresses on my domains I have
> only ever, for many years, used Gmail for pretty much everything,
> everywhere, across social media, account logins, lists... everywhere. If
> scraping email addresses from places was a thing for spammers (though I
> suspect that's old-school now) then my Gmail address is probably the most
> accessible too. But I get more spam on my own domains' email addresses that
> I *don't* use than I ever do at Gmail, which tells me their spam filters
> work way better than my domain's. If I could (relatively) cheaply host my
> domains' email addresses at Gmail I would do it (I can, I'm just being
> stingy at paying for the privilege). So, from a spam perspective I like
> Gmail. Also, from a list-administration perspective (I'm a "listowner" of a
> dog breed-specific list), of all the major, free email hosts, Google/Gmail
> is less likely (i.e. they never have) to suddenly ban all email from a
> subscriber-only list mail server due to thinking it "spam" than others (I'm
> looking at you, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook ~shakes fist~). I use mail apps
> on devices (iPad and iPhone), but I use GMail's web front end on my
> computers (I don't like any computer mail clients, including Apple's).
>
> As for the tracking/targetted advertising thing, I don't know as I tend to
> not know or care one way or the other - I'm not dismissing your concerns,
> and understand them, I'm just saying that it's not a concern I personally
> can provide much input on, beyond adblockers like uBlock and
> tracker-blockers like Ghostery (others will probably have better
> recommendations or anti-recommendations).
>
> tl;dr: Dreamhost for hosting, Gmail for mail. For me anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
> Ingebirah, Oz
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