Hi,

The last google product that is use is gmail, and while searching for a solid alternative, many threads mentionned self hosting, which has been on my mind for a little while but here is what's stopping me so far: 1/ it sounds like a single point vulnerability 2/ I lack the skills.

As for #2, I've been down the privacy rabbithole for a couple years now, I know there are a lot of resources out there and I'm not afraid to learn, I just don't know where to start.

But I don't see the point in learning if in the end, I just build a server that could die in a domestic accident, resulting in me loosing a lot of important data.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated,

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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Self-hosting works great for everything but email. Email these days requires a commercial IP for the MX unless you want to get blocked, so the closest you can get is hosting on a VPS.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    Thank you for your reply, you are seconded by many others, if I get started on this self hosting journey, I'll start with simple stuff I don't care too much about, and test it out before leveling up on skills/security, and we'll see if I eventually end up self hosting emails, but I don't see it coming in a near future.

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