Category: Tech and Coding

  • How I set up private email hosting for my family

    Here’s how I actually set up my own private email hosting—sanger.io! I already finished choosing a private email hosting provider. So what was the next step? I still had to choose a plan with my chosen provider (InMotion Hosting, which didn’t pay me anything for this) and make it official. The details are uninteresting; anybody…

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  • How I chose an email hosting service to replace Gmail

    I want to lock down my cyber-life. One basic constraint is that I want to replace Gmail, and when I do so, I never want to change my email address again. My biggest concern is that I never again want to be beholden to any major Internet corporation that has shown its contempt for privacy…

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  • How I’m locking down my cyber-life

    Drafted Jan. 4, 2019; updated occasionally since then; most recently updated May 11, 2019 Three problems of computer technology My 2019 New Year’s resolution (along with getting into shape, of course) is to lock down my cyber-life. This is for three reasons. First, threats to Internet security of all sorts have evolved beyond the reckoning…

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