Hello! Are you thinking about hosting your own email? Do you enjoy having a life? Do you want to deal with spf and dkim records? Having to add more storage space? Backing up said emails following the 3-2-1 guide? Finding out your residential ISP blocks port 25?
I didn’t think so, and neither do I. Go pay to have someone else host your email.
Been running my own server for 15 years. I need to put about 20 hours maintenance a year in for updates. I have the whole thing automated as a helm chart using PVCs with cert-manager for auto-renewal and the node just runs k3s as a single node.
That’s a lot of extra layers, but the layer of seperation between the host and the services makes it very easy to automate all the pain away.
20 hours per year is far too many hours of my time, and you’re past the point of having to spend the time architecting it. You also have the operational costs of whatever you decide to host on, along with your backups.
Imo, paying $100 or even $200 a year is a steal in comparison
Its encrypted at rest, so good luck, but you still have to worry about this from your provider. You have to also worry about if they would even tell you if they knew that was happening, and you have to worry about what they are doing on top of that.
I have a single layer to worry about, and likely going to solve that with moving the mail storage to a home server and only having the postfix mail-exchanger in the cloud.
Honestly - it’s not impossible. Not as simple as spinning up a webserver, but definitely doable. I should probably write something up at some point.
I can help.
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Hello! Are you thinking about hosting your own email? Do you enjoy having a life? Do you want to deal with spf and dkim records? Having to add more storage space? Backing up said emails following the 3-2-1 guide? Finding out your residential ISP blocks port 25?
I didn’t think so, and neither do I. Go pay to have someone else host your email.
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Yea, I should definitely write something up so bollocks like this does not proliferate.
Please do.
Be sure to also put how much time people can realistically expect to spend on each step (including offsite backup and recovery).
Been running my own server for 15 years. I need to put about 20 hours maintenance a year in for updates. I have the whole thing automated as a helm chart using PVCs with cert-manager for auto-renewal and the node just runs k3s as a single node.
That’s a lot of extra layers, but the layer of seperation between the host and the services makes it very easy to automate all the pain away.
20 hours per year is far too many hours of my time, and you’re past the point of having to spend the time architecting it. You also have the operational costs of whatever you decide to host on, along with your backups.
Imo, paying $100 or even $200 a year is a steal in comparison
I pay $300 for 3 years with SSD nodes.
I never have to worry about the company hosting my mail going corrupt, being sold, or being coerced into giving access to my data without just cause.
You undervalue the cost of maintaining the trust with a provider
No, now you have to worry about your data being seized at the data center level.
And, because it’s in a data center, it can be seized/copied without you even knowing about it!
Its encrypted at rest, so good luck, but you still have to worry about this from your provider. You have to also worry about if they would even tell you if they knew that was happening, and you have to worry about what they are doing on top of that.
I have a single layer to worry about, and likely going to solve that with moving the mail storage to a home server and only having the postfix mail-exchanger in the cloud.
Agreed.
Too many people undervalue their time.
if it’s more than 10min I’ll just continue to pay tuta mail
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