Just joined a couple of days ago so only fair to sum up the things I host myself.
I have 2 locations I host my personal stuff.
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Datacenter:
- Websites
- DNS servers
- Lemmy
- Friendica
- Mail servers
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Home:
- Home Assistant
- Frigate
- Jellyfin (incl Sonarr, Radarr etc)
- Immich
- Fileserver
- Nextcloud
In the Datacenter I still run a VMware ESXi server that needs to be replaced (this winter) and at home I have a Truenas server and 4 Proxmox nodes cluster.
Mail servers?
How are you finding that these days? I thought all the anti-spam stuff meant that self-hosted email was just not worth it these days?
On residential connections it’s a bit pain in the rear, but if you get VPS (or something similar) it’s perfectly manageable. You just need to maintain stuff properly, like having proper DNS records, and occasionally clear false positives from spam lists. The bigger issue is to have proper backups and precautions, I’ve hosted my own emails for over 10 years and should I lose all the data and ability to receive new messages it would be a massive personal problem.
It’s not worth it but some people don’t mind the cost.
What cost?
Real email security gateways cost money. There’s no good way to deal with it at small scale.
Depends what you mean by “security”
They don’t have to cost money. The mail filter appliances are all based on postfix, spamassassin and a virus scanner like clamav. The thing you pay for is the nice gui.
If only that were true.
I genuinely don’t understand what you are paying for. I must have missed something.
It is, I looked at several vendor’s and it’s all te same except for the nice gui. They all have their own blacklist that they feed with the spam/ham queries from their devices.
Not really. Postfix is very robust against attackers and knows to how to deal with bots by default. It makes sense to also configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your own safety.
If you want to stop the attackers from hammering, you can also add fail2ban.
If you want to avoid spam, you can attach a spamfilter to the delivery agent and let Sieve do the rest.
I’ve been running my postfix/dovecot combo using 4 mail domains for over 5 years without any problems. It’s simply fantastic.
It is hard to set up and you might need an SMTP relay since most ISPs close port 25. But it is feasible.
I also have a mail filter, I have been hosting my own mail server for the last 25 years.
Out of interest what are you using? I was postfix/courier for a long time, with a must migrate to dovecot 10 years ago. Finally migrated this year and the performance difference is noticeable
I recently moved to Mailcow, it’s a one in all solution. My spam filter is Proxmox mail gateway, also very user friendly.