An external email host. Life is too short to deal with frustrating email issues.

I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn't taken care of locally.

• Tailscale for external access, this is extremely convenient.
• Namesilo for domain (cheap but otherwise not really recommended)
• Bunny DNS (because NPM's certbot doesn't support Namesilo). Still looking at their other services, overall it seems nice.

Still looking at an external backup solution like Backblaze or Hetzner

For my homelab:

• Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
• Cloudflare (DNS)
• Tailscale (VPN)
• Oracle Cloud (VPS)

For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):

• Oracle Cloud (VPS)
• Tailscale (VPN)
• Cloudflare (DNS)
• Cloudflare R2 (Object storage)
• Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)

Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted

Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn't have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.

For now, I'm just using the fact that my IP doesn't change that often, and living with the fact that I'll have to manually update it at some point.

Uptime monitoring and notifications

I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I'm on mobile.

Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.

For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).

Basically just the bare minimum

• Email (Zoho, still on their old legacy free plan)
• Backblaze B2 for Restic to store backups on
• DNS for my public domain name (Cloudflare)
• Uptime monitoring for my website (HetrixTools)

Cloudflare tunnels - it used to be dynamic dns, but the ISP blocked ports 80/443, so I switched to tunnels.
External DNS on the Gl-Inet router, included with the product
Goodcloud, from Gl-Inet (included and really nice to have another way to get to it)

for the home self-hosting, that's pretty much it.

For the (coming soon TM) fediverse apps in Keyboard Vagabond, add in S3, cloudflare CDN

For me Cloudflare as I've been with them for years, Let's Encrypt and that is pretty much it...

VPS that hosts my email and a few other things, and for clients that is where their stuff is hosted

• Mail with all the bells and whistles (been there, done that – but I just want this to work and not care about details).
• Dynamic DNS because I just need to tell someone my non-static IP so they can connect that with my domain name.

have a cloud server for public IP to host email server, headscale and coturn.hetrix tools for uptime monitoringcloudflare for ddos protection etc.

regery for my domains (they're ukrainian)

smtp2go as a relay for my mail server

mxroute for my other mail domain (yes, I have 2 domains)

The rest I try to selfhost

Only tailscale fpr vpn and backblaze for backup

• Lets Encrypt...
• Backblaze (for now, until I find an alternative closer to home)
• Email

GoDaddy(I think) for my domain, Cloudflare +Letsencrypt (DNS SSL challenge), Tailscale (to access applications remotely), AirVPN (for applications to access the web), Gmail (smtp, I want to migrate soon).

I host everything else.