Hosting is still better than registering with Google/FB for several reasons:
1. Registering with email is not usually an SSO. Authentication is using password and email is used only for recovery. Your won't get locked out of other services even if email server fails for some reason.
2. Hosting providers usually engage customers much better than ad and social media companies. Chances of getting your service back up with customer support assistance is much better.
3. In case the hosting provider locks you out without recourse, you can always move to another provider and point your DNS records there. For this, it's better to have a different company as registrar and hosting provider.
4. DNS so far is the least affected/abused online resource. The chances of you getting locked out of your domain name is low, unless you fail to renew. They give sufficient warning as well. Let's take advantage of that until companies decide to wreck that.
> There should be a better and more resilient way to identify people online in 2020!
I don't think that's an accident. The choices and freedoms available for authentication seems to be diminishing with time. It was possible to specify the authentication provider a decade ago.
1. Registering with email is not usually an SSO. Authentication is using password and email is used only for recovery. Your won't get locked out of other services even if email server fails for some reason.
2. Hosting providers usually engage customers much better than ad and social media companies. Chances of getting your service back up with customer support assistance is much better.
3. In case the hosting provider locks you out without recourse, you can always move to another provider and point your DNS records there. For this, it's better to have a different company as registrar and hosting provider.
4. DNS so far is the least affected/abused online resource. The chances of you getting locked out of your domain name is low, unless you fail to renew. They give sufficient warning as well. Let's take advantage of that until companies decide to wreck that.
> There should be a better and more resilient way to identify people online in 2020!
I don't think that's an accident. The choices and freedoms available for authentication seems to be diminishing with time. It was possible to specify the authentication provider a decade ago.