I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.
While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?
The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?
I have multiple domains (and many email addresses) that I pay a host (Namecheap) for. I have the lowest priced annual hosting package. And email is administered through cPanel, not the separate email service they offer. cPanel is very easy to use and you get spam controls. I also fetch my pop3 mail with Thunderbird. I have done this for 15+ years and rarely have I had an issue or missed email. cPanel is part of your hosting package.