Like the title says, I’m new to self hosting world. 😀 while I was researching, I found out that many people dissuaded me to self host email server. Just too complicated and hard to manage. What other services that you think we should just go use the currently available providers in the market and why? 🙂thank you

  • fourstepper@alien.topBEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I try to NOT self-host any service that:

    1. Is open-source and provides a hosted solution
    2. Doesn’t have some technical/price requirement (like a media library/photo library where you pay per GB) to use the mentioned hosted version
      • if this is the case, I donate to the project I’m using instead
    • Simplixt@alien.topBEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Do you have an example?

      “Open Source + hosted” always involves trust, as you can only look into the Github repository, not if the running hosted application is running identically.

      Only exception: It’s an E2EE encrypted solution, and everything else happens client-side (example: Bitwarden)