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I switched from Google (email, cloud storage, etc.) to Infomaniak in august last year. It was european, got more cloud storage for less money and though the user experience wasn't 100% polished, it was basically 90% there. Good enough.
I couldn't be happier with my choice now - this seems like a really good move. This looks like a similar sort of setup as Mozilla the for-profit company has with the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. Good on the founder for doing this!
I wanted to switch for my domain names but they did not carry nearly all the extensions I need. Too bad. Went with INWX for that.
I have a domain I want to set up email and cloud storage for me and my family in so that we can migrate away from google and hotmail etc. I have just not had the time to research which provider to go for yet.
How big was the transition itself? Can you set up cloud backup of photos from your phone, etc?
I don't have my own domain for my email, I just switched to Infomaniak's domain. I then use Thunderbird with the unified inbox to view all my emails in one inbox. So I get both my gmail and infomaniak emails in Thunderbird. I didn't bother changing all of my old accounts using the gmail to use infomaniak instead - there's just so many accounts and it didn't seem worth it. Primary goal for me was to stop paying Google for drive space.
The transition was pretty easy honestly, once I sat down to do it. The largest obstacle is honestly the mental one, of getting oneself to actually commit to doing it.
Can you set up cloud backup of photos from your phone, etc?
Yes, the kDrive app can be set to automatically upload pictures you take on your phone to your kDrive. I actually like it even better than on Google, cause on Google my photos never got to Google Drive, but went to Google Photos. So I didn't automatically have them on my PC. With the kDrive app, you just choose a folder in your drive where the photos are saved, and then it saves them there, and it gets synced to your PC if you run the kDrive app there obviously.
Cool, Thanks for the comprehensive reply!
I switched to Infomaniak when I first started seriously migrating away from gmail. I found it a really clean and almost too good to be true, email is fundamentally un-private and IK seemed like a great balance. Also all their apps were open source and on fdroid! Wow!
I was disappointed to see them take a stance against Swiss encryption law, which ultimately made me stick with Proton (also not perfect, but who specifically took the opposite side of this proposal). This issue seemed to be at the core of what I expected from a privacy focused email provider.
What really made me upset was that when I then tried to leave Infomaniak I found that they lock email forwarding behind a paywall (something not even Google does). It actually became very difficult to leave the small number of services I had migrated over to, and I still have my ikmail in my client by necessity.
This is definitely a positive change. I want to take them seriously and more competition in the relatively private non-American email space is good. But I am still hesitant to reccomend or embrace them. Would be curious to hear anyone else's thoughts?
I wish I switched to these guys when I left google. I chose a large provider in India because I just wanted to support them.
But I did not realise that the Indian government has gone so fascist that they are even ahead of USA, and far more authoritarian than Britain.
It took over a year to get everyone to switch to my new email address so I can’t really ask this of people again. But I’ll suggest it to others who are looking for recommendations.
This is why a bought a domain. I'm going to do a similar change, but I hope it's forever.
I think countries should have a free domains for normal people to do the same, and prevent these companies from having power over something that's basically a utility and necessity, based on a decision you made once in your life when you were 13.
If it wasn't for the PATRIOT Act I would've said the USPS should've gotten with the times and offered low-cost email services.
Considering how much they love supporting spam, it would be interesting to see what this would look like.
Yes, someone did suggest this to me at the time but it was too much for me then to figure out DKIM, DMARC and SPF then. Not something the average person can do.
Nations providing free (or at least consistent) domains is an excellent idea.
Switched 5 years ago. Was a good move. For $16/year, you can't go wrong.
This is awesome! Infomaniak is great!
Sweet, I use them for my domain name. If Runbox ever dies I'd move email over too.
Great news also thinking of my own email hosting with these guys
