Free your Email, Calendar and Contact Services

The core of our digital life is still our email address. Maybe notsomuch for interaction, but at least for identity provisioning unless we will have ubiquitous wallet solutions along EUDIW.

I was with Alphabet’s google.com for the last 15 years or so. Microsoft’s office.com or Apple’s Icloud are nonethebetter and most of us may even have accounts with all of them. They fall into a jurisdiction which will force the revelation of your private data on the saying of a rabid government and have proven to kiss that government’s feet.

Yes, it is comfortable to have an easy integration into your smartphone, your home computer and even your smart bulb. And it is hard to find an alternative - especially a cost-savvy one.

Hosteurope for domain hosting

Hosteurope is a German-sited service provider. Offers email and domain services and virtual servers as well.

It has been aquited by US company GoDaddy lately, so I would not trust them my data, I use them only for forwarding and nameserving.

Costs around 10€ per domain per year depending on the toplevel you choose.

Posteo for communication services

Posteo.de is a Berlin-Based company with a focus on data privacy (you can have a completely anonymous account and payment methods) and green energy (CO2-neutral).

Using their imap, caldav and carddav endpoints, it is not too hard to configure in your daily apps (especially on Apple devices because they come with a ready-made profile for you).

Costs 12€ per year for 3 aliases and 4GB of space.

Disclaimer

This step if part of Project M.E.G.A.