Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is disroot ok?

[J.B. Nicholson]

G. Sebastián Pedersen wrote:
> Since the radical change in openmailbox.org I've been searching for
> new alternatives on email+cloud.
>
> I came up with https://disroot.org
>
> So I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice or opinion.

I'm not sure what you mean by "cloud" (that's part of the problem with that 
term); as far as I know "cloud" computing refers to doing one's computing 
on someone else's computer (obviously inherently unrecommendable) so I'll 
limit my comments to talking about email.

disroot.org doesn't look to be remarkably different from any other email 
hosting provider so long as you avoid using POP3 and keep the total size of 
your mailbox under 2GB (what https://disroot.org/services/email says is the 
size limit).

Use encrypted IMAP for reading mail, encrypt and sign outbound mail with 
GPG, and use an encrypted connection to their SMTP server for sending mail, 
and you'll do about as well as anyone can expect to do with email. Webmail 
interface probably requires Javascript which makes it easy for the server 
side to get you to run nonfree software or run malware.

I don't know how disroot.org's prices compare to other hosters (I didn't 
look that far into their website) but you should consider getting your own 
domain name so that your email address(es) don't change, even if you switch 
hosters. I didn't notice disroot.org offering domain names so if you go 
with disroot.org and you want your own domain name you may have to get the 
domain name somewhere else.

Dreamhost.com might have a better deal for you for email hosting because (I 
think) Dreamhost offers a higher email quota and optional "+" offsets (for 
instance: username+string@yourdomain where you use your username, 
optionally add a "+string" to the end of it to help you identify how people 
got your address or for filtering inbound email), and optional server-side 
filtering (more simplistic than it used to be years ago but still useful 
enough to do what most novices want to do most of the time like moving 
inbound email to a folder). Dreamhost.com also sells domain names and 
offers a JS-based webmail.