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.

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Rick Cogley
M: +81-90-9959-5452

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