premium email service?
I am looking to pay for a premium email account so I’m no longer tied into my ISP. I don’t want to buy a domain name (which is what most of them seem to push towards) nor do I want a gmail/ymail/hotmail "personal info harvesting" freebie service. Just a reasonably priced premium mail service. Can anyone make any recommendations.
independance Which I think is what you mean by Premium usually means your own domain name… however obscure.
And that means you need your own address, is flexibility and bargaining power.
Otherwise you are just moving from an ISP offering email and broadband to one offering email only .. which is still a lock in of service.
Yahoo, gmail etc do offer a paid for service ..(as well as the free one) and then you can take you name/business to another provider when you want or need to. eg if it went bust or charged too much etc. or you caught it doing things you did not like.
So for a genuinely independant service you need your own name (2.99 a year for a .uk one) and a service eg one and one offer 2GB of storage for 0.69p/month,,,, and more if you need it.
If you go with another providers domain name, it will be no different than the paid for services of yahoo for example…. in fact perhaps Paid for Yahoo where you have a contract and not a free service where you have no contract (because there is no money exchanged) would be what you need ?
Otherwise, I think you need to define premium better.
Or is it just not the current big names associated with Free services.
(of which only google – free and they do also do a oaid for service… – is the only one actively data mining)
I suggest you bite the bullet and choose a domain name… it is only a small charge and it will belong to you if anything goes wrong..
well in that you can use Microsoft mail outlook
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independance Which I think is what you mean by Premium usually means your own domain name… however obscure.
And that means you need your own address, is flexibility and bargaining power.
Otherwise you are just moving from an ISP offering email and broadband to one offering email only .. which is still a lock in of service.
Yahoo, gmail etc do offer a paid for service ..(as well as the free one) and then you can take you name/business to another provider when you want or need to. eg if it went bust or charged too much etc. or you caught it doing things you did not like.
So for a genuinely independant service you need your own name (2.99 a year for a .uk one) and a service eg one and one offer 2GB of storage for 0.69p/month,,,, and more if you need it.
If you go with another providers domain name, it will be no different than the paid for services of yahoo for example…. in fact perhaps Paid for Yahoo where you have a contract and not a free service where you have no contract (because there is no money exchanged) would be what you need ?
Otherwise, I think you need to define premium better.
Or is it just not the current big names associated with Free services.
(of which only google – free and they do also do a oaid for service… – is the only one actively data mining)
I suggest you bite the bullet and choose a domain name… it is only a small charge and it will belong to you if anything goes wrong..
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