So what you’re telling me is that…
I have to use DNS for email to work?
And if I ever need more storage, I have to plug in a disk?
And If I want to keep my data I actually have to back it up somehow?
And I need to forward a port or if that’s not possible directly though my ISP, use another service that offers it?
Sorry, none of that is much of a revelation.
Sarcasm aside, while hosting your own email is not as easy as a lot of people make it out to be, it is definitely not as hard as you are describing either.
If anything the hardest part is not even in your list, it would probably be getting enough people to mark your domain as not spam that you get lifted out of automated spam filtering.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Yea, I should definitely write something down so bollocks like this does not proliferate.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Please do.
Be sure to also put how much time people can realistically expect to spend on each step (including offsite backup and recovery).
Routhinator@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
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.
liara@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
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
baines@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
if it’s more than 10min I’ll just continue to pay tuta mail
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Narrator: It is.