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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/3212910

Hi all,

I have had several shots at self hosting email over the years and my last attempt failed due to my home IP being in a dynamic pool. I thought I might try again, this time with a basic web hosting provider that I could set up email on. Any suggestions for a free/cheap provider with decent uptime?

Thanks

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[–] moritz@lemmy.deltaa.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] astromd@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

💯 Agree. Don’t self-host email.

[–] gopher@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

The most important thing, if you intend to do outgoing email, is to get a reputable hosting service, where you'd have few/none bad neighbours. Unfortunately that often doesn't come together with cheap, as cheap solutions often attract a certain clientele. I've also had more luck with slightly smaller (but still reputable) providers, i.e stay away from OVH / Hetzner and the like. If you want something cheap, it'd probably not be a good experience to self-host.

With my self hosted solution I have no concerns about deliverability, and only very few occasions had blacklisting issues (due to neighbours in the /16 range).

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://tunnelbroker.net/

Get a static IP and host yourself? Hurricane electric offers free IPv6, so you can get a static IPv6 address for your mail host

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

Free/cheap VPS are a lot more likely to have their IPs blacklisted for email, due to being used for spam.

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago
[–] bravemonkey@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 months ago

The recommendation to use a reputable email provider host is much better, but if you want to go it yourself the Google Cloud free tier includes an instance with a public IP address. Snapshots are not included in the free tier or any other backup, so use at your own risk - this besides the complexity of email security.