Favorite Email Provider/Setup

Hello HN, long-time lurker here. I was wondering what your recommended/favorite email provider/setup is. I use Gmail, like a lot of people, and I feel that I'm a bit too dependent on this Google account. Hearing all these horror stories of people getting banned by Google with barely any support to resolve these bans makes me want to potentially explore other options.

Please let me know what you guys use and if I'm otherwise being a bit too paranoid about gmail ^^