[crossroadsguy]

Where do people self-host these emails? When email self-hosting is talked about, my thoughts wander to Fastmail, Migadu, etcetera (I use one like these), but I quickly realise that's not it. On those lines, I do not believe these mail self-hosting folks are talking about some VPS, or server from some provider, or even AWS, et al., either — not self-hosting enough. It must be a computer/server always running at their home/basement/or so (with whatever power/Internet backup setup they have—or maybe not, as they might find it acceptable if something was missed/dropped). So is it that? And if that's what it is, then what is that mail self-hosting home setup of yours? What all have you got there? Just curious, I doubt I can go through that, as my patience gives in even trying to set up a VPS for a seedbox when it is time for the first maintenance/tweak.

[Gud]

I have a VPS at Hetzner. I pay 4 euro per month. It's inside a FreeBSD jail for separation.

Keeping FreeBSD up to date is extremely simple. run pkg update && pkg upgrade. It rarely breaks. Can't remember it ever breaking.

The main reason I prefer FreeBSD over Linux distros are the far superior package managers(pkg for binaries and ports for source code).

I also host my own web server using nginx, and sometimes other stuff. All in separate jails.

Back when I was a kid, I used to have my own servers.

[man8alexd]

The problem with self-hosting is finding an IP with an clean reputation and not on any block lists, with good neighbours (people sometimes block /24), with an open outgoing port 25. Then you'll need to slowly warm up this IP for weeks or months.

[vachina]

I host it at home.