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Paid email service provider for poor people?


In face of the recent discussions regarding Google locking out users for no reason [1], I've decided to look for an alternative email setup. The common advice here is usually something around the lines of Fastmail or ProtonMail with a custom domain. Well, I'm an unemployed student in a third world country where the minimum wage is 150 USD/month. Considering a .com domain registered with Namecheap plus a Fastmail or ProtonMail plan with custom domain support, that would cost around 6-8 USD/month. For comparison, the only subscription I currently pay for (besides bank fees and etc) is Spotify, which costs me 1.5 USD/month with the student plan (I actually split this with a friend). With that said, what would be the best cost-benefit setup for a safe, personal email service? Thanks.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432

  👤 catovh Accepted Answer ✓
If you're not going to build a website on the domain thus won't be bothered with seo and stuff, why .com? There's countless other tld thats cheaper than .com's $8 yearly (which imho still cheap considering some tld do goes to $50-100 yearly). Check https://www.domcomp.com and see the new and renew tab then choose the overall cheapest there.

For email hosting, again for the absolute cheap theres actually few free service that allow custom domain, zoho and yandex comes to my mind.

👤 grok22
migadu.com -- https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ "micro" is 19$ per year