>>>As for hosting, I maintain my website for about 20 years, and my own email server comes with it. First dozen years it cost me 20$/year, for the registrar only; now I'm paying 50$/y only to have more space.
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>>In your last paragraph, do you mean that you have an account with an ISP and it cost you only $50/yr?
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>They're not my ISP, they're just hosting my website. It's the doteasy.com somewhere in Canada, I think Guelph. IIRC, Evan Delay's neck of the wood.
I see that I confused ISP with the hosting company.
So, your personal email is not
yourname@gmail.com but something like yourname@yoursite.com?
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