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Customer for a few years now. I don't do anything fancy with it. It was the cheapest and most appealing option for a custom domain for personal email. I think
by drunner 2y ago
Customer for a few years now. I don't do anything fancy with it. It was the cheapest and most appealing option for a custom domain for personal email. I think it runs me ~$11 a year or something
I combine it with simplelogin to handle all my aliasing needs.
Thanks for the great service.
- 77pt77 2y agoHow is deliverability? Because for $11/year you can get a simple kvm machine and run your own servers.
- anshargal 2y agothere are not a lot of options to get a virtual server under $1 per month, especially with IPv4 address
- selcuka 2y agoRackNerd offers one for $10.99 a year [1]. I've used them before and they are a solid provider. Besides you can use the same server and same IPv4 address for hosting multiple email domains. [1] https://vncoupon.com/black-friday-racknerd-huge-savings-special-vps/ https://vncoupon.com/black-friday-racknerd-huge-savings-spec...
- 77pt77 2y ago15 USD or EUR a year is almost trivial. It will have more than enough resources for SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, and even a personal VPN. It's really not difficult. The problem is that most IPs will be tainted and unless you are a major player, email deliverability sucks. That's why I asked, because these guys were unknown to me.
- jimmydoe 2y agoyour time worth a lot more.
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- Imustaskforhelp 2y agoI have heard this a lot of times but self hosting email is one of the hardest things to do , sure if you are masochist then do it , but if you are a working functional part of society , not recommended.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoI installed Mailinabox [1] four years ago. There was one annoying upgrade, whose process needs to improved, but outside of that haven't touched anything. Only a couple of random domains where email delivery has failed. Otherwise, it just delivers to all the big providers. [1] https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/
- NetOpWibby 2y agoThat annoying upgrade is the reason I’m planning on moving to Stalwart[1]. I’m still on the old MiaB version and I’ve always been interested in JMAP (which Stalwart supports) [1]: https://stalw.art https://stalw.art
- MrDrMcCoy 2y agoAs someone that's self-hosted email for years, I don't think it's that hard. There's plenty of great solutions that make it easy. Sure, there are footguns, but they are well known and easy to avoid.
- bhaney 2y ago> self hosting email is one of the hardest things to do I spent an hour setting up postfix and some milters on a Digital Ocean droplet around 7 years ago and it's been working fine as my personal email server with no deliverability issues or maintenance since then. I ssh in every few years to try out a new spam filter or something and maybe upgrade some packages if I feel like it. These days there are even easier mail-in-a-box style turnkey deployments that work just as well but don't need as much knowledge or setup as bare postfix. At this point, the biggest barrier to self-hosting email is the deafening cries of people who don't know what they're talking about parroting how impossible it is to do.
- TZubiri 2y agoAre you insinuating 11$/yr is too expensive for the service lmao. It's so cheap people probably don't buy it because it will go bankrupt.
- xigoi 2y agoWhat do you need SimpleLogin for? Purelymail supports aliases on its own.
- drunner 2y agoI still prefer to shield my domain and inboxes. Probably a silly exercise, but I like knowing that no one can spam my true inbox or domain as its never given out.