Do you own your data?

  • 2 days ago
Your email is the glue that holds your digital life together, and without it, you could lose the key to all your data. So making sure you 'own your keys' is vitally important. Here's what I had to deal with when my email stopped working.

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Transcript
00:00You're probably aware that your email address your email account is the most important thing in your digital life
00:07Basically, it's the thing that holds everything together from having your bank contacts
00:13You that your clients contact you you contacting people friends and whatever. It's basically the
00:20The glue that holds everything together
00:23the problem is a lot of people don't actually have their own domain name as
00:28Their email address, so my email address is whatever at k cam guard calm or before it was make junkie calm
00:37and
00:39When it comes to moving from one email service provided to another if you don't have a domain name
00:46It's a real pain in the butt. It really is and it causes more issues
00:52Then it needs to be there are ways of fixing it and I've done it many times, but it's just a bit of a pain
01:00however
01:01when you come across a
01:04Situation like that when you let's start again. I tell you my story
01:09I've got a domain name. I had a server host
01:12I moved over to iCloud plus because now you're able to put a domain name to iCloud plus great
01:19I have everything in iCloud all my archive and everything is was in iCloud iCloud
01:26my archive goes back to
01:2997 98 something like that. So I have
01:32Over 200,000 emails, but I like to keep everything so I never throw anything away
01:38So I moved all my archive to iCloud iCloud plus worked
01:44seamlessly
01:45until
01:48Well when I
01:51Send out emails for my newsletter. I send it out from my own domain. So my email address
01:57The problem was that some people weren't receiving it and when I did tests to myself, I wasn't receiving it
02:04So I blamed the service provider and I still think they have to a little to blame
02:10but it just
02:12It just didn't with it just didn't work and after doing some investigation
02:17Talking to some people online and then the service provider actually telling me it's it's your
02:24Email service provider not your newsletter service provider. I I couldn't quite understand it
02:30So I did a test and then moved I did a test with another domain
02:34And it seemed to work
02:37Then I was stuck because I had everything in iCloud all my emails all my archives
02:43however, because I always say make
02:48You've got to be able to make your data your data
02:52So if if a service doesn't work
02:56You need to be able to move from one place to another without any downtime, right?
03:01So because I have my own domain name I could literally point my domain name to another service provider email service provider and
03:11It's working so within about an hour it was actually less than that, but just say about within about an hour
03:18it
03:19carried on working my newsletter service have started working and everything and that's only because I
03:27was able to have a situation where I was
03:31I could move my domain really easily and the fact that I didn't have like a
03:36You know a gmail account or an access for all account something like that
03:40some domain that I
03:43That belonged to me that I that I had access to so making sure that you have
03:51Your data accessible and I'm not just talking about email
03:54But for instance if you're using a project management tool
03:57Can you get that information out of there?
03:59If you're using a notes app are your notes secure and can you get that information out of there?
04:06Etc. Etc. And I luckily was with my email able to move my email from one place to another
04:14Without any hassle because I thought about this in the past
04:19So you've got to basically make sure that you own your own data in the crypto world
04:25They say own your own keys
04:28Just like your house own your own key. It's your key to get into your house
04:32You've got to own the key that gets to your data
04:36Hopefully that was helpful. If you have any questions about your email, let me know because I deal with email all the time
04:43I enjoy it. It's my geeky thing. Have a great day. Keep it simple. I'll see you next time. Ciao