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Ask HN: Paid Alternatives (for Gmail)?

4 points by dotme ↗ HN
I was one of the person whose account was accidently reseted by gMail. My account had 10K+ emails over the time period of last five years. I know they will restore it anyways, but still this incident has made me more concerned about having a secure e-mail (I know, no one can beat gmail in ease of use).

What I am looking for is some paid alternative to e-mail. I tried fastmail.fm, and its good enough. I am still not sure about their reliability.

I can afford upto $50 a year, with atleast 1 gb of storage. Reliability is the most important concern.

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yanw
They had 99.99% uptime last year: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/01/destination-dia...

I'm on the paid Google apps and my account is intact (I'm not sure if any apps accounts were among those disrupted) but as far as I can tell if you're looking for a reliable web based email service Gmail is your best bet, you could periodically download emails if you want to feel safer.

dotme
Any Personal account option? I don't want to jump on Business Plan !
yanw
It's free for < 50 users.
sixtofour
Whatever solution your choose, you should have a regular backup process.

It's not that gmail could lose your emails. It's that email could lose your emails.

dotme
Backing up e-mail is something hard to think about. Atleast, for this thing the service provider should take the responsibility.
dustyreagan
I doubt a paid email service will be anymore reliable than Gmail. Your best bet is probably to look into a good backup strategy. For example, you could use Outlook or Mail to retrieve all of your Gmail locally while still keeping the original email on Gmail.
ggordan
Agreed. Any service can fail regardless whether it's paid or not. So the best way to keep your emails safe is backups.
michael_dorfman
Reliability is the most important concern.

You really think there is someone out there with a better reliability record than Google on this front?