Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
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Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
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Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#2And yet email addresses being domain specific also makes it impossible for end users of popular service providers to migrate to another service, unless they are using their own domain name.
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#3I’ve been self-hosting my personal email for over 20 years, but I would never use it to send transactional mail. That belongs on a different domain using an ESP that has the reputation for it (I prefer Postmark).
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#4The solution to "my transactional email service does not deliver to one ISP" is "use a transactional email service". I have used transactional email services for low volume and highly variable sites and have had very few problems, none of them general blocks - there were warnings from providers and a single digit number of hard bounces when one site had a vulnerability to registration spam (owner thought the previous developers had a honeypot to stop it, turned out it not so).
Its very weird that low volumes are the problem. I have been self-hosting personal email for myself and a few family members (so very low volume) on an OVH VPS for years. I cannot deliver to Hotmail (MS hosted institutional email works, outlook.com works) but that is the only problem I have encountered myself. The heaviest sender in the family had emails rejected by one business.
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#5hello,
as always: imho (!)
idk:
as a business, if the "main focus" of your business is related to email =?> self-host.
but if this not your core business: why in the world would you even think about self-hosting!?
pay someone "as a service" / for your "peace of mind" and be done with that.
as a private person:
if you are interested in learning a lot about the internet and especially e-mail: do self-host ;)
if not: pay someone a few bucks a month and do stuff that matters to you ;)
just my 0.02€
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#6I’ve been self-hosting my personal email for over 20 years, but I would never use it to send transactional mail. That belongs on a different domain using an ESP that has the reputation for it (I prefer Postmark).
exactly, this is a stupid and misleading title. self hosting your email is perfectly fine.
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#7hello, as always: imho (!) idk: as a business, if the "main focus" of your business is related to email =?> self-host. but if this not your core business : why in the world would you even think about self-hosting!? pay someone "as a service" / for your "peace of mind" and be done with that. as a private person: if you are interested in learning a lot about the internet and especially e-mail: do self-host ;) if not: p…
For a business, another option is to have your own server but pay someone to manage it rather than just entirely outsource it.
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#8It's true. The megacorporations are actively blocking communication between human persons because it increases their profit and the rules don't apply to them. But this doesn't mean you need to roll over and just take it. The benefits of hosting your own email far outweigh the problems of delivery to some megacorps.
>self-hosting email is an anachronism of a simpler internet. The good old days. They are long over.
This is only true if you are being paid to run a for-profit business or institution. For human people acting in their own interest the fight for free communication is far from over.
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#9hello, as always: imho (!) idk: as a business, if the "main focus" of your business is related to email =?> self-host. but if this not your core business : why in the world would you even think about self-hosting!? pay someone "as a service" / for your "peace of mind" and be done with that. as a private person: if you are interested in learning a lot about the internet and especially e-mail: do self-host ;) if not: p…
For a business, another option is to have your own server but pay someone to manage it rather than just entirely outsource it.
yes ... i thought this is included in the expression "as a service" :)
it doesn't matter how you slice & dice it, the "service" is to have someone - be it business or be it a person - who is responsible for running this service ... you get an SLA and according to the conditions you are able to work with the entity which provides the service ...
Re: Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
#10This attitude is so self-defeating. If no one hosts their own email anymore, no one will be able to host their own email anymore in the future.
Having said that, I host some of my mail with Hetzner, and even at their scale they sometimes have deliverability issues.