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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 11 months ago by avguser to c/selfhosted

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I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like [email protected] or [email protected]. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for [email protected] [email protected] etc.

Consider that I'm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some "too big to fail"?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Purchase the domain with cloudflare, for email it depends how you use it:

With an email client like thunderbird:

A cheap service like mxroute is perfect

If you need to use a webmail:

You need to pay a lot because the free webmails are all unusable for advanced use.

Good options:

Zoho at $1 per user per month
Exchange with ovh at €3 per user per month

Bad options:

Google workspace at $10 per month per user plus the blood rights for your firstborn and pray that they don't alter the deal
proton pro at $9 per user per month but IMHO is extremely overrated for what they offer at their price point (unless you need end to end encryption when emailing other proton users)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

+1 for own domain and some email hosting service. That also makes it pretty easy to switch providers because you can simply point your MX records etc. somewhere else - no need to change the actual email address.

I can also recommend mailbox.org as an alternative to mxroute, they're even a little cheaper at $3/month (mxroute is $49/year at minimum).

[–] trewq 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You may want to check lowendtalk. Jar (mxroute owner) run promo over there, at least once a year.

His last black friday link below. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190301/mxroute-black-friday-2023-email-hosting-that-spammers-crave-but-cant-have/p1

His black friday page still up too. https://mxroute.blackfriday/

Cheapest is $15/3 years for 10GB.

I’ve been using his service for years with no issue, and my account is grandfathered plan ($10/year for 50GB)

Non affiliate beside being their customers for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, didn't know about those deals!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Protonmail is a honeypot. Stay away