Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks agoWe host most stuff at home, and then additionally some services at Hetzner on an (auctioned) root server. Bloody nice to get really good hardware for cheap, plus unlimited data with either 1 or 10Gbit synchronous network speed, a dedicated IPv4,…
Stuff like my mail server lives there because it HAS to be available, and doing it at home, and doing it well, is next to impossible.
I’m planning a nix hydra + cache server, which will probably also live on the Hetzner server, simply because it’ll have pretty intense jobs to run a lot of the time and I’m not a fan of having the noise of spun-up fans at home.
Both solutions have their place, is what I’m saying / agreeing.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, mail can be end-to-end encrypted but they got bros out here raw dogging their VPSs.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
Not a VPS.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someone else’s computer.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
More like: paying someone to maintain the hardware.
Anyways.
Just FYI, your mails with a provider like Proton are not E2E encrypted unless you exclusively wrote with other Proton customers (in which case I assume they are. No idea). Otherwise it’s just encrypted at rest.
I dint really see the benefit over doing it completely yourself, not even offering metadata to a provider, and also having encryption at rest, while maintaining full compatibility with mail clients 🤔