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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well I don’t have a home server at the moment so I was renting out a server for about $40/month. Mostly because it was eating up a bunch of storage, and I was too lazy to swap from digital ocean.

    Also I was using the ansible script and at some point I they changed something that required me to set it up again which I didn’t really have the time for.

    I will say Ansible was a lifesaver. It made setting up and keeping the server up to date super easy.

    I do recommend trying it out tho, just don’t use a domain name that is the same as your username or you will have issues with pings, especially if you share the instance with a friend. Learned that the hard way. Anytime they sent a message anywhere I was at, it pinged me, whether or not they intended to ping me.




  • I also looked at self hosting email but the main problem I ran into is most IP’s are blocked by most email providers. My residential IP was already on a blacklist and getting it off that is too much hassle

    I’m pretty sure I used mxtoolbox before to check my IP. Looks like my current one is actually clean so I might not have any issues if I tried it now