Hi,
The last google product that is use is gmail, and while searching for a solid alternative, many threads mentionned self hosting, which has been on my mind for a little while but here is what’s stopping me so far: 1/ it sounds like a single point vulnerability 2/ I lack the skills.
As for #2, I’ve been down the privacy rabbithole for a couple years now, I know there are a lot of resources out there and I’m not afraid to learn, I just don’t know where to start.
But I don’t see the point in learning if in the end, I just build a server that could die in a domestic accident, resulting in me loosing a lot of important data.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated,
Self-hosting works great for everything but email. Email these days requires a commercial IP for the MX unless you want to get blocked, so the closest you can get is hosting on a VPS.
Thank you for your reply, you are seconded by many others, if I get started on this self hosting journey, I’ll start with simple stuff I don’t care too much about, and test it out before leveling up on skills/security, and we’ll see if I eventually end up self hosting emails, but I don’t see it coming in a near future.
I self-host mail from home. I don’t have reverse DNS, but I’ve set up the rest of it (SPF and stuff). It works about as well as email usually does. I needed to register my IP in Spamhaus.
I have used my ISP’s email relay to avoid the IP address prejudice. A good ISP should have one.
Or proxying through a VPS.