XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/8/7 11:1:26, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 7/08/2025 8:39 am, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >> The _nearest_ you can come to a "permanent email address" is to register   
   >> your own domain, and (this is a _separate_ activity, though in many   
   >> cases handled by the same company for convenience) pay someone to handle   
   >> that domain for you, such as handle mail to it. This is permanent as   
   >> long as you keep paying the registration fee. (Even then there can be a   
   >> _temporary_ interruption to your _use_ of it if you fall out with the   
   >> company handling it for you [or they go bust or otherwise cease to   
   >> operate satisfactorily]; if _you_ own the domain, you can switch hosting   
   >> provider, though it will take some time.)   
   >>   
   > If that were the case (Current host going belly up,) would 'you' still   
   > have access to your information (to then transfer) or might that be   
   > lost, too??   
      
   Temporarily, while the hosting/forwarding company were bust or   
   malfunctioning, then I presume yes, you would lose access to data such   
   as incoming emails, which you could probably never retrieve; however,   
   you _would_ retain the domain, and could eventually instruct some other   
   company to handle it for you. You'd lose incoming emails in the   
   meantime; if you really want belt and braces, register two domains (such   
   as .com and .co.), and have them hosted by different companies.   
      
   Of course, make sure that when you register the domains - even if you   
   have the handling company look after the registration for you - that   
   they're registered in _your_ name, not that of the handling company.   
   Good handling companies will do this, though it may not be their default.   
      
   During any such hiatus you'd also lose control of any website they host   
   for you too, and information from it (such as form input) - but, again,   
   you should be able to transfer that to another provider. (Good ones   
   should be knowledgeable about helping with such a transfer from   
   rogue/dead ones.) Of course, you should always keep a local copy of your   
   website anyway.   
      
   (This all in theory: I have no experience of a bad/fasiled hoster! I did   
   change hoster - from tsoHost to Krystal - but that was only because the   
   former switched to online assistance only, closing telephone support;   
   they were otherwise fine. [And in practice I _think_ all my   
   communication with Krystal has been online/emails anyway; I just didn't   
   want to lose the _option_ of telephone contact.])   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   The modern world so often thinks that the way to relax is by doing   
   absolutely nothing, and I've never really understood that.   
   Nigella Lawson in RT 2015/10/31-11/6   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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