eldirector
Grandmaster
With the latest evilness from Google (search for Google conservative reviewed claims, plus their sexual/gender harassment suits, and all of the other ways they insert social/political issues into what would otherwise be incredible products), I'm actively looking to move my "services" to another vendor. I know of things like DuckDuckGo (search engine) and various other web browsers (Firefox, or even SeaMonkey). What about other services commonly hosted by Google? Email? Calendar? Files and document editors? Photo storage, editing, and sharing?
I specifically chose gmail back in the day, so I could avoid address changes every time I changed ISP. I SHOULD have gotten my own domain, which I suppose is still an option as well (any advice for free/cheap email domains would be nice).
Like it or not, I am fairly invested in the MS Office online suite. We use it at the corporate level, which gets me a sweet discount for personal use. And, since I use it on all devices, I can access anything (work or personal) everywhere. Unfortunately, MS is probably right up there with all the other big providers in their "evilness". I don't trust Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, etc... any farther than I could (virtually) throw them.
Sort of running my own server/services (email, calendar, personal cloud, some sort of web-based document management, etc...), what options should I be looking at?
I specifically chose gmail back in the day, so I could avoid address changes every time I changed ISP. I SHOULD have gotten my own domain, which I suppose is still an option as well (any advice for free/cheap email domains would be nice).
Like it or not, I am fairly invested in the MS Office online suite. We use it at the corporate level, which gets me a sweet discount for personal use. And, since I use it on all devices, I can access anything (work or personal) everywhere. Unfortunately, MS is probably right up there with all the other big providers in their "evilness". I don't trust Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, etc... any farther than I could (virtually) throw them.
Sort of running my own server/services (email, calendar, personal cloud, some sort of web-based document management, etc...), what options should I be looking at?