I recently started looking into hosting my own email, and the suggestions I got were very encouraging, with a lot of easy solutions paired with some unavoidable gotchas.
It is has become apparent that for me to do this right, I need my own domain name, maybe a VPS or host.
I was about to purchase from Infomaniak, which also had an email solution I liked, but one the prices in euro was throwing me off and two it defeats the purpose of controlling and running my own internet services.
So, I will skip the email hosting and give a try at running my own.
Still, is Infomaniak a good buy? I am going crazy thinking up a good name, and settles on the extension me since it will be a personal thing, but not use my real name since I am going to avoid that shit until I really need to.
Any help would be welcome. Thank you.
UPDATE: I bought a domain name off of Porkbun, which was surprisingly pleasant. I am a sucker for cute guided experiences.
When I first started with self hosting an easy, and actually free last I looked, way to get email at your own domain was via ZoHo. Fairly simple way to start. True self hosting of email can be a pretty arcane bunch of work, starting with that most home connections are on the Spamhause ZEN list. So far the easiest have been either with Neth Server or using a dockerized mailcow, one is bulky and rather opaque, but easy totie to a domain, the second is a bit more comprehensive but less user friendly sometimes. Plenty of other ways of course all the way to rolling your own from dovecot/postfix on out if inclined.
Thank you, Zoho looks really clean and the pricing is really attractive.
What I am learning is that there is an embarrassment of options. Every hosting provider has email for a reasonable price. It is actually awesome and this thread really expanded the breadth and depth of my understanding of email and all the many ways I can get it.
The main lesson I have learned is that ProtonMail is not even a good option compared to everything I have looked at. It’s marketing about privacy is strong, and they seem to have a good reputation, but their offering does not live up to their marketing, not for the cost.