[addicted]

If youre not on the cloud (and even there on AWS and maybe Google Cloud…Azure is ok in a pinch… and iCloud everything if you also overlap with the Mac crowd) are you even an engineer, seems to be one popular strain of HN thought, which comes out particularly aggressively against e-mail servers because they are arguably the worst type of server to run on your own.

[tuldia]

Yes, and doesn't makes sense, I don't know, I run my own email server for more than 10 years and my experience has been "setup and forget".

I don't understand why so much frustration coming against owning your own stuff.

[kova12]

I think it's because many of us here also did run our own email servers at some point in time, until realization came how hard it is to implement and support all features one gets instantly and effortlessly with gmail and such