May I suggest mailinabox.email for easy email administration. I've been using it for a long time and it manages the hard bits :).

Sorry I can't comment on Infomaniak I've never used them.

I like clouflare for domain hosting. They have a lot of great tools that are included.

Please do add a tag to your post as stated on the sublemmy sidebar! Thank you. :)

Practically every recommendation I've seen on buying a domain is either:

• PorkBun
• CloudFlare

These two use very straightforward pricing, with no gotchas.

I can’t say I’ve heard of infomaniak, but I use NameSilo and have heard good things about Namecheap. I prefer to have my domains hosted somewhere that focuses on being good at that and host my other stuff elsewhere (such as ProtonMail for email or self hosted if you’re brave enough).

As for domain names, they’re pretty cheap if you choose one you don’t like! You can always get a new one later and reinforce knowing how to get it all setup. Personally, I do have one with my full name for professional settings, like giving out to my job or putting on my resume.

If you are interested in the privacy element, I highly suggest looking at ProtonMail and their SimpleLogin integration! It is great for having a unique email address per service you sign up for.

(The following is second-hand experience) You should google "DKIM and SPF" before you embark on this journey. The tl;dr of it is that senders of email can (and do) end up blacklisted based on the IP Address of their mail server. If you run your mail server on (say) a.b.c.xx and a known spammer happens to rent a vps from the same provider at a.b.c.yy, you both end up blacklisted. The spammer moves on, whereas your emails fail t make it through other folks' spam filters, and there won't be anything you can do about it.

When I first started with self hosting an easy, and actually free last I looked, way to get email at your own domain was via ZoHo. Fairly simple way to start. True self hosting of email can be a pretty arcane bunch of work, starting with that most home connections are on the Spamhause ZEN list. So far the easiest have been either with Neth Server or using a dockerized mailcow, one is bulky and rather opaque, but easy totie to a domain, the second is a bit more comprehensive but less user friendly sometimes. Plenty of other ways of course all the way to rolling your own from dovecot/postfix on out if inclined.

Thx for mentioning infomaniak, I'm looking for alternatives to Mailbox.org as they had to increase their prices. I've tried self hosting but somehow it always has been a hassle, might be just me though. Also mailinabox wasn't around back then. I've got my domain at namecheap, they've got all the tools and a super cheap whoisguard service. Prices depend on the tld you're looking for, so you'll have to look it up.