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Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.

It’s great if you need what it offers. Otherwise, it’s simpler to set up something like Ubuntu Server.

I use Proxmox to run my email service, port87.com, because I can have high-availability services that can move around the different Proxmox hosts. It’s great for production stuff.

I also use it to run my seedbox, because graphics in the browser through Proxmox is really easy.

For everything else (my Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc), I have a server that runs Ubuntu Server and use a docker compose stack for each service.

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JAWNEHBOY@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I had never heard of Port87 before, how do you like it? And I assume you pay no monthly fee by hosting your own domain?

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- hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I meant that I made it. :) It’s my own email service, and I run it on Proxmox. So, take this with a grain of salt knowing that I wrote and run it, but I think it’s the best email service by far. I wrote an article about how it works really well for me here:
  
  sciactive.com/…/the-best-email-for-those-who-stru…
  
  Feel free to sign up for free and try it out. :D
  
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  - Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Interesting.
    
    I have an old free email provider that’s just passed the email service to another provider
    
    I’m looking to move because I used to be able to use <anything-at-all>@my-email.domain and I’m not sure I’ll be able to do that anymore
    
    I basically do what you’re doing - using email prefixes for the site I’m registering with… I even caught a company out once when I suddenly started getting spam from that email address. They’d sold my details…
    
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    hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You should check out Port87. :) You wouldn’t need to change any of your addresses if you bring your domain on. Custom domains is $10/month though, so it would cost you more. Hopefully the features would be worth it for you, and if not, you can always migrate it again to a different provider. That’s something I love about email. If you have your own domain, you can completely avoid vendor lock in.
    
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