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ISP Service Isn't What It Used To Be
Irregular email service is widely accepted
Your internet service provider may not be providing the level of service you desire – and you may not even be aware of it. A recent PBS.com article cited Earthlink as an example of an email system which “has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90% of their email”. This type of irregular email service is widely accepted by many ISP’s who often fail to notify their customers of the problem.

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maartena
Elmo
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Orange, CA

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maartena

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And thats one reason I have my own domain.

I got fed up with provider e-mail services a long, long time ago. I registered my own domain, added hosting to the mix, which has gotten me a very reliable e-mail and enough storage space online. 5 Gb to be exact, which I can access using FTP. Very handy for a private software collection.

A few reasons why I switched to my own domain:

- I got sick and tired of having to tell everyone my new e-mail address after a move... OR after my ISP decided to sell out and the new company forced their e-mail address on me.

- I got sick and tired of the limited storage e-mail providers offer. For instance, TWC/RoadRunner still offers only 10 Mb per e-mail account.

- I got sick and tired of the webhosting "features" of my ISP which usually came down to 10 Mb homepage space and basically no other features besided placing HTML files.

- And the biggest reason was actually that my ISP was getting to be unreliable. Especially their SMTP server did not always sent what I was sending.

I pay $9,95 a month for my services and I am happy with them. Its worth it to me. Others may have enough with GMail or Yahoo Mail which offer quite ample storage as well.