I cut Google from most of my life years ago, and switched mail to MXRoute.com instead. I have nothing but great things to say about them.
Grabbed a special offer back then, 10 years/XX GB for something like $99 total, including all the domains i can think off and all the users i want. Compared to what was available at the time it was super cheap, and it has had like 99% uptime since.
Latest offering, free of charge, is a Nextcloud account for user/calendar/notes syncing.
> Not a dealbreaker to me, as I am a native Texan by birth,
but might be an issue to someone looking to avoid 5-Eyes.
It's email. Any pretense of avoiding 5/9 eyes is already moot. Any conversation has at least 2 participants, and since 50+ percent of the world population runs on some kind of hosted email (Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo/whatever), anything you send has a high probability of passing through 5/9 eyes anyway. It doesn't make much of a difference if you look through the "from:" or "to:" headers.
The only way to be safe from 5 eyes is encrypting all the contents in your mailbox, either through GnuPG or using Protonmail/Tutanota.
Grabbed a special offer back then, 10 years/XX GB for something like $99 total, including all the domains i can think off and all the users i want. Compared to what was available at the time it was super cheap, and it has had like 99% uptime since.
Latest offering, free of charge, is a Nextcloud account for user/calendar/notes syncing.