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What types of services are you not willing to self-host? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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For example, something that is too complex for your comfort level, a security concern, or maybe your hardware can’t keep up with the service’s needs?

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[–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Email. Way too complicated and lots of maintenance. Not to mention it you mess it up, there are huge downsides.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I find it funny that a bunch of the simple basics are nowadays considered complicated. I've been doing my own mail and DNS for over two decades now, and don't see a reason for stopping. It is pretty low maintenance, and generally less headache than having someone else do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Standing up email might not be that hard... but it's much harder to ensure that your mail will actually be delivered successfully. Plus it's not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever, whereas even if my Vaultwarden credential vault goes down I can access passwords from a device that has things cached at least while I fix things.

    Plus the big providers just treat small mail servers with a lot more skepticism than they did 20 years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Plus it's not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever

    The sending server will retry a few times, so you have at least a few days to bring it back. And if you prefer an additional fail-safe - adding a secondary MX somewhere else which will just store mails until the primary comes back is trivial.

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