What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup?
I mean anything that is not hosted in your house. For example, dynamic dns, some type of ddos protection, off-site backups, external oauth provider, etc.
An external email host. Life is too short to deal with frustrating email issues.
I’d recommend looking again, as I think that advice is becoming dated. Greylist and DKIM make spam prevention super simple, ironically because the centralization of email towards Outlook and gmail has trained pretty much every sender to follow the rules or your email doesn’t go through. And then Greylist catches the rest, because spammers don’t come back and retry after a few minutes.
Same :( admittedly I never tried, but it's the one thing everyone recommends against.
It is a real pain, I host a small email service, and spend at least an hour a day dealing with issues sending emails.Mainly because users think it is entirely acceptable to send thousands of emails a day thinking they will get results from it. However, I have to say that I am telling most people to move away from email as it isn't that secure and those free email addresses from old ISPs are terribly insecure. Also seeing a lot of data stolen as people think 2FA via email is great, so hackers just hack the email server and boom
I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn't taken care of locally.
For my homelab:
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
Still looking at an external backup solution like Backblaze or Hetzner
Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted
Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn't have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.
For now, I'm just using the fact that my IP doesn't change that often, and living with the fact that I'll have to manually update it at some point.
Plenty of better DNS services out there...
I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I'm on mobile.
Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.
Basically just the bare minimum
hetrixtools is so good!
Uptime monitoring and notifications
Mind sharing what service you use for it? Paid or free?
A small application I wrote myself, hosted on the free tier of pythonanywhere.com
For me Cloudflare as I've been with them for years, Let's Encrypt and that is pretty much it...
VPS that hosts my email and a few other things, and for clients that is where their stuff is hosted
For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).
Cloudflare tunnels - it used to be dynamic dns, but the ISP blocked ports 80/443, so I switched to tunnels.
External DNS on the Gl-Inet router, included with the product
Goodcloud, from Gl-Inet (included and really nice to have another way to get to it)
for the home self-hosting, that's pretty much it.
For the (coming soon TM) fediverse apps in Keyboard Vagabond, add in S3, cloudflare CDN
regery for my domains (they're ukrainian)
smtp2go as a relay for my mail server
mxroute for my other mail domain (yes, I have 2 domains)
The rest I try to selfhost