[jwr]

> What is your email solution?

As a data point and reminder, running your own E-mail server works just fine, in spite of FUD being spread around sometimes. I've been doing it for the last 25 years or so. Stick to Ubuntu LTS releases, use postfix for SMTP, dovecot for IMAP, and SpamHaus for spam filtering[1], and you'll be fine.

[1] these are becoming less and less useful, as most spam these days goes through Google, Microsoft and Amazon, and these companies couldn't care less about abuse reports, as you can't block them because they are too big.

[t_mahmood]

I like that idea, which is why I actually rented a public IP, only to get hammered by bot networks trying to get into my ssh. Fortunately, I had the password based log in off.

I should give this another try. But next time, maybe a VPS would be a good idea?