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Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by cobertos »

fareesh wrote: post #289
cobertos wrote: post #288

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For that I had to make a custom service that periodically runs rclone. Duplicati does cloud backups, but it has a record of being a bit sus

Is there a server / host that provides storage at a price cheaper than Dropbox though?

Backblaze B2 is the same price as Dropbox for 2TB ($0.005/Gb/mo vs Dropbox $10/2TB/mo)

You can also use rclone to upload to Dropbox as the backup solution. Just wrap it in a crypt target so that Dropbox doesn't actually have the ability to scan your files/lose anything in a security breach

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Post by Breza »

the_af wrote: post #79
ChainOfFools wrote: post #45

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People who mark things as junk mail or spam typically have no idea that this action can have an upstream impact on spam filtering algorithms. They typically have no idea how any of this stuff works and just assume that the purpose of marking something is spam is to prevent them from seeing any more of it, personally, in the future. It doesn't occur to them that their preference thus exerts a small influence over the…

I disagree with your modern definition. Spam to me is unsolicited commercial emails. All email "ads" are spam. Newsletters I didn't subscribe to are spam. Anything trying to sell me something I didn't subscribe to is spam. You bet I'm going to mark it as spam and I hope it creates trouble for the sender. PS: I assume we all agree scams, "Russian singles", chain letters, "little Jessica is 4 and dying of cancer", etc,…

I agree with you. Outlook gives me the option to classify an email as either spam or phishing. Newsletter I didn't ask to receive? Spam. Newsletter I signed up for but am tired of getting? Unsubscribe. Little Jessica is 4 and dying of cancer? Phishing.

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Post by Breza »

dijit wrote: post #6
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #3

> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise? I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I woul…

> I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I would love to learn if I'm wrong though. You can do this, I have done this, but honestly it's annoyingly painful and you're always one bad ad campaign away from being nuked to death by people marking your emails as spam. There's a lot of rules to follow and even when you follow…

This is the correct answer. I work at a company that sends millions of emails every week from our self-hosted IP range. If you have a high quality list of recipients who actually want to hear from you and warm up your IPs gradually, you can be successful.
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