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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I'm sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won't suck. It's great for now but we'll see.

Is the prevailing advice still not to bother with self-hosting email?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure that's the prevailing advice... I've been self-hosting mine for a while now. It's been lovely. 0 issues outside of some "special" users.... Who also are family... So they're just "special" anyway.

Been very hands off for me. And when shit goes "wrong" (I can think of 2 major incidents in the past couple years?)... I get the opportunity to actually fix it... rather than sitting on my thumbs crying that my emails don't work.

[–] SheeEttin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't think of any major incidents with Gmail since I opened my account in 2005.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And yet I get emails regularly about outages from Google. I used to be hosted on a grandfathered google workspaces. For some reason they refuse to unsubscribe me from the admin emails. This month has had 6 emails on 2 different issues(290173792 and 290269440). This year... 63 emails.

There's definitely outages galore... and I've had several affect me/my users in different ways. They usually clear up pretty quick... but to say none... I can't agree.

It's quite likely that you think it hasn't affected you, but an outage occurred for you overnight or during a time you didn't really notice.