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Comment by j45 | Hacker News Reader

The reality has changed a lot about self hosting. Looking into it might surprise you.

Self hosting e-mail? With the trust issues you get with small mail servers these days, I've got better things to do than worry if that job application ever reached their inbox.

There’s more pragmatic ways to self host, other than configuring everything from scratch.. including email.

Lots of tools and suites like Zimbra and Mdaemon that can self host mail just fine.

Outbound delivery can use a service as well.

Look for options and possibilities and they can be found. Look for reasons not to do something and those will be found too.

You're saying self-hosting is easier now than in the past?

Having done self hosting and and coming back to it after a 10 year break.. much easier.

One example of not setting everyone from scratch..

IaaS/Paas: Install Proxmox from USB.. 10 minutes from boot to web interface to your own local linode/digital ocean. Redundancy, setup 2 and link them. Disaster recovery, put it off site. Backups, connect it to one of a few built in options.

Network/infrastructure: deploy docker images for VPN (algo), firewalls (pfsense), dns (pihole), proxy (traefik, etc). It can remain an appliance that can be configured to self update if needed.

Storage: make storage into an appliance that you set and forget with a nas.

Next spin up your services/packages. Things like turnkeylinux is a nice way to try out things.

There is a nice self hosting community on Reddit if you’re interested for folks who have setup homelabs.

With the exception of outbound mail, I absolutely think it is.

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