On 2024-06-14 Brian Lowe wrote:
Hi everyone,
TL;DR: My email was down for a week while I migrated to a new provider.
Yikes Brian! That's quite the quest.
I can add a couple of insights, maybe:
Paypal does *not* have my MPN (cell #) on file and I use pp all the time to send & receive. They do have my home phone, which I am much happier about giving out because we never answer it! :-)
And like you said, MPN is the magic key to tie all your accounts together -- no one uses home phone to tie anything to anything; and in any case, only a smattering of sites have even that info.
My point being that even if pp asked for your MPN, you can often bypass that by closing that window and logging in manually in pp (not using the pp link in the invoice). They should let you login without an MPN. Once in pp you can usually find the invoice manually and pay it via that route.
And if not, you can probably just ask or determine what the invoicing company's pp email address is and just send a manual payment. Ya, they may need to do something manually on their end, but companies rarely refuse incoming money.
And I can second the praise for HostPapa. A client has me using that for some stuff and it's pretty good so far.
Of course, some of you are waiting for this, so I won't let you down: I'm always a promoter of running your own email infrastructure so that you can never be cut off like this. But I do realize that's not for everyone! ;-)
On the bright side, at least you own your own domain and don't have to have everyone change their contact info for you!