Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good advice. > On Oct 3, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > > As far as email - I think the single most important piece of advice I can > give (I give it over and over, solicited or unsolicited, and of course it's > roundly ignored) is: *never ever ever use an email address provided by your > internet service provider as your primary email address to give out to > people* and hope to use consistently for years. All that does is lock you > into continuing to use that ISP because of what a hassle is is to try to > tell everybody a new address to use. > > An ISP should be purely a utility, a pipe, a source of bandwidth you can > switch whenever another carrier can give you better service or a better > financial deal. Don't let yourself get locked in by falling for that free > email address they'll offer you. > > So... a gmail address remains a fine choice (they do good spam detection, > and have really useful message archiving and search features). > > Gmail isn't free - you pay for it by letting then advertise to you. But I > still trust Google, because they have a good history of being transparent > about how they'll use any information they glean about you (and I've seen > them go well out of their way to make sure I saw and read any updates to > those terms and conditions before they went into effect - this by dramatic > contrast with Facebook, which routinely slips changes in under the radar). > > You can use a regular @gmail.com address, or you can have Google handle > email for your personal domain. > > You can also opt to buy the Gmail and Google Apps / Drive service by paying > $5/month per user in lieu of being advertised to. > > As far as a website... the number of options is insane. Note that if you > have a purely static, read-only-for-viewers, no backend functionality at > all website... a pretty straightforward way to put up a static site which > is really robust under load is to serve it from an Amazon S3 bucket. You > can look it up if you're interested and don't know what that means; the > approach may or not appeal to you. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information