Comment by WalterBright

5 years ago

> losing access to their GMail accounts and their entire digital life.

This is why my email address is @ a domain that I own. Thus, if my hoster goes ventral fin up, I find another hoster. I might lose some time, but I won't lose everything permanently.

My mail reader (Thunderbird) is also configured to always download all new email and delete it from the server. Hence I have backups going back 25 years, which has turned out to be valuable many times. One case was when I was reconstructing the timeline for "History of the D Programming Language" I had a solid resource rather than my barnacle-encrusted memory.