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Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 years
  • Yes I'm sending all my messages through SMTP2GO or Mailgun and never had any problems with emails going to the spam. Of course using a relay can be an issue when it comes to privacy, but I noticed that in my case I mainly receive emails with private information and only rarely send anything that could be used for tracking.

  • Welcome to !selfhosted@lemmy.world - What do you selfhost?
  • Which websites are you referring to? I never noticed any problems from the sites I use. Only when I encounter any kind of captcha I always have to manually select images and it will never solve itself like some did in the past. But not sure if thats due to me not being logged in with Google in my main browser or if it's caused by Honeygain.

  • Email self-hosting
  • 99.95% spam

    lol may I ask what you have to do to get that amount of spam? I at most get one spam mail per month to my server and I have some addresses listed as contact information on my public websites.

  • Self-hosted Password Manager Recommendation?
  • There are enough people that don't have the technical knowledge to host their own instance which happily pay Bitwarden to do so. If I host my own software and pay for the servers myself I'm not gonna pay a monthly fee just to be able to use the software. Maybe a one time payment, but definitely no subscription.

  • Self-hosted Password Manager Recommendation?
  • Both, you can use an external 2FA app to secure your vault, but it has also an integrated authenticator that you then can use for other websites. I use Aegis for Vaultwarden and all other websites I save in Valutwarden itself.

  • Self-hosted Password Manager Recommendation?
  • Don't you have to pay to use premium features on your own server with their official software? With Vaultwarden you get all premium features unlocked for free on an infinite amount of devices.

  • Anyone else run so many services locally that sometimes you don't immediately notice your internet is out?
  • No cause a few seconds after the internet goes out I'm getting spammed with emails from Uptime Kuma that my public websites went down. But I would only experience minor complications with my smart home and entertainment setup and could probably watch movies for around 2 or 3 weeks.

  • Welcome to !selfhosted@lemmy.world - What do you selfhost?
  • It really depends on the type of IP you have and your location, but it's really not much for me. From Honeygain I get like 20 bucks every 6 months and when paying out the money around 4$ get lost by transaction fees, but better than nothing and those services use so few resources, you don't even notice them running in the background.

  • Welcome to !selfhosted@lemmy.world - What do you selfhost?
  • May I ask why you prefer Cloudflare tunnels over regular port forwarding + dynamic DNS? Except if you are behind CGNAT, in my opinion letting Cloudflare read all your data kind of breaks the whole privacy aspect of self hosting.

  • Welcome to !selfhosted@lemmy.world - What do you selfhost?
  • I host:

    • docker-mailserver
    • code-server
    • Vaultwarden
    • Flame Dashboard
    • FreePad
    • Gotify
    • Nextcloud
    • Baikal
    • Mosquitto
    • HomeAssistant
    • Node-RED
    • InfluxDB
    • Grafana
    • piHole, Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS client
    • Uptime Kuma
    • Nginx Proxy Manager
    • wg-easy
    • Shiori
    • MeTube
    • Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Unpackerr,...
    • qBittorrent, Gluetun
    • Jellyfin
    • Watchtower
    • Honeygain, Pawns App, Peer2Profit, Traffmonetizer
    • 4 Websites via Nginx
    • a few services that I wrote myself

    I think that should be it. I left out some less important ones and probably forgot a few that I don't use that often. All these Services are spread across 2 servers at home and a small VPS mainly used for the mailserver and Uptime Kuma.

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