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A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

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What service one should NOT self host (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like the title says, I'm new to self hosting world. 😀 while I was researching, I found out that many people dissuaded me to self host email server. Just too complicated and hard to manage. What other services that you think we should just go use the currently available providers in the market and why? 🙂thank you

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Self hosted doesn’t mean hosted on your home connection. Even with a static IP I would recommend against hosting your mail server at home because any outage means no mail (been there, done that). I have hosted my own imap/smtp server for decades and couldn’t be happier with it, but yes, the smtp part is tricky to evade blocks, especially from MSFT who would just block entire networks without a real reason (Linode for example)