I started hosting my own servers in the 90s. I stopped about 6 years ago, because the then relatively slow connection to my house couldn't keep up with the spam and the script kiddies who were trying to beat on my DNS and ssh servers.
I moved my DNS first, to my domain provider. That went well enough that I decided to try fastmail, and I couldn't be happier with their service. When my primary web server hardware died, I used the backup to move to a linode server. It's basically static hand-written HTML that I never touch, anyway. (That move broke a couple of mailing list archive searches that almost no one used - RIP.) I used to host all this stuff for friends, too. That was a friendly service and a terrible idea. I still hold the bulk of my decades-long mail archive on an imap server in my basement, along with a NAS that has backups and photos and music. I still have some static IPs, but I'm not entirely sure I need them any more. And yeah, I'm not sure I can recommend this to anyone. On August 2, 2025 5:54:16 AM PDT, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist <[email protected]> wrote: >I have observed at close quarters friends who host their own email >(including hosting my email, and this list) and, to quote Taj, I recommend >it to absolutely nobody. Email is broken, and needs 24/7 professional to >work reliably in this brave new world. > > >-- >((Udhay Shankar N)) ((via phone)) > > >On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 18:16 Sirtaj Singh Kang via Silklist, < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 29/07/25 16:07, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: >> >> You? >> >> >> I've run my own mail server for the last .. hmm.. 25 years or so now? >> Because email (along with a domain name) is the last line of defence for >> identity on the internet, flawed as it is. >> >> I am glad I do this, and I recommend it to absolutely nobody. It's a pain, >> and frankly the last thing I'd want to do is be responsible for anyone >> else's email. For example, I "allow" my wife to use my mail server, but I >> also relay all her mail to fastmail just in case. >> >> -Taj. >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>
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