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Stupid question: what the shit do you do with your 15 years of communication history if your email provider falls off a cliff?
You pop3 your mails or keep a local copy of you imap them. That'll make sure you don't lose any historical communication.
As soon as you start doubting if the service with persist, start switching services over to a new address, logins first.
*checks email inbox historical folders: oldest entry 1997-05-07. :)
I messed up my data partition ONCE on a windows upgrade with the most recent backup being over a year old, and I still beat myself up over it.... The only time I actually ever paid a professional data recovery service for private purposes.
Nothing you can do. This is the implicit (and sometimes explicit) contract we have with cloud services, that they'll keep our data safe and keep the lights on forever. If you think about it, though, unless you're paying for it this is untenable. A single user, when paying with their attention, will only ever generate a fairly fixed amount monthly. And yet the cost of keeping them on as a user grows steadily over time as more data is accumulated.
I would recommend getting a Google Takeout export every year or so. Even before it falls off a cliff it's a good idea to have your own backups. Accounts can get blocked, hacked, etc.
Restore it from the backup that you regularly make rather than relying on a free service to protect it for you for decades?