Apologies for the rather long period of silence. Thanks for the heads-up, I hadn’t notice the wording or the pricing at Netlify.
I did notice the discussion about EagleFiler and I have been since then looking at various ways (including using a RaspberryPi) to setup a local network storage at home as I do not own a desktop and have no plans of getting one. This might help kill a few birds, - offload emails to a secure backup at home, - function as a TimeMachine backup at home, - media/audio server for the speakers to play music/podcasts. On 7 Jan 2019, at 3:59, Rick Cogley wrote: > Hello - > >> email host and simple web host for personal, non-commercial use … >> static website… >> price b/w 70-100 USD > > I have been using Webfaction for a long time, but they got bought by GoDaddy, > a move which I’m not comfortable with. They have been fine for both email and > web/app hosting, for the many years I’ve used them and, they have great > support. > > That being said I’m thinking about changing to something else and both Gandi > and MediaTemple look good for shared hosting. I use Hugo for many sites, and > host many of those on Amazon AWS S3 with Cloudfront. It’s trivial and cheap > to host static on S3. Hugo’s own Bep coded an excellent utility that works > perfectly in an rsync-like way, to get your static files up to S3. > https://github.com/bep/s3deploy > > I’ve recently moved my private email to host on Mailfence which has good PGP > support, and so far, they’ve been very clear and straight with what they can > and cannot do. The support has been excellent. Their service also includes > calendar, contacts and a file store, so that you can move away from something > like Gmail. When I researched it, ProtonMail needs a helper app on the > desktop, to allow you to use IMAP apparently, and this helper supports only > certain mailers. I dropped them from consideration when I heard that, because > I was set on using Mailmate and unwilling to spend the time to test. > > A lot of the email services in Europe make the point about their being non-US > and therefore less subject to the possibility of invasive monitoring. They > all support S/MIME or PGP in their browser apps, which is a nice convenience > to be able to encrypt if you’re away from your main mailer. But, to me the > main point is not the availability of PGP in their apps but rather their > businesses’ locations. I can use PGP in Mailmate and in Canary on iOS, > without regard to service. > > I would be wary of Fastmail and linked services, given what’s happening > vis-à-vis privacy in Australia. > > Re mailbox size, well, you’re always going to hit a limit and keep having to > pay more (after all, private mail providers are businesses which are not > benefiting from your attention to their ads), so I would recommend a regiment > of offloading your old emails to disk, via something like EagleFiler. Some > kind soul even made a bundle in MM for it. > > You don’t mention the time unit for your price range but I can say: > > * Mailfence is ~ USD 3-4 per month > * Webfaction has been ~ USD 10 per month > * Static site on A3 is honestly negligible if low traffic and low file volume > (but, it ain’t apache so you have to get used to some things) > > Re Netlify, it is indeed slick & tempting, but the free level requires > payment for add-ons, such as the one that allows password protection. If you > want that sort of thing included by default, it jumps to the "Team Pro" level > (smallest level) @ USD 45/mo. > > Just some food for thought. > > -- > Rick Cogley > M: +81-90-9959-5452
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
