Assumed audience: People who have their own domains and websites or services they run on them.
Yesterday evening, I posted a note about “separation of concerns” for my registrar, DNS provider, and. I just added these two notes to it:
Equally critical to my mind: I do not run my email (hello@<whichever domain> etc.) through my registrar or my DNS provider, but another service. In my case, that’s Fastmail, but it could be basically anything: Proton, Google Apps, Outlook, whatever. The point is that my email is, like every other part of this stack, not coupled to the other parts of it!
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