Hey all, I have a VPS with Hostinger that serves a few websites, very basic stuff, simple blogs or static pages, very low traffic.
At the moment I have ‘custom domain’ emails set up with Protonmail and also Tutanota. They are mainly for client communication one-to-one, I very rarely if ever do mass mail-outs.
I’m looking into the possibility of setting up a mail server instead, but it seems it’s generally not a good idea to run mail server and web server on the same VPS. [– if anybody thinks there may be exceptions to this, do let me know, because I would still be interested if it’s not an entirely bad idea?]
So I’m wondering about a dedicated VPS to run my mail server, but really don’t want to pay much.
In order for it to be cost effective (as opposed to just paying for a mail service with multiple custom domains), i’d want a VPS with 3GB ram and 20-30GB storage that doesn’t block port 25, for less than $6 per month.
Is this likely? Anyone know of any contenders?
Email is one of the few things I wouldn’t personally self-host, because hosts like gmail may silently drop your emails with there being literally nothing you can do about it.
I don’t know why people feel the need to say this every time somebody asks about selfhosting email.
Because hosts like gmail will silently drop your emails and there’s nothing you can do about it. I linked to a source.
Can someone help me understand the downvotes? Why would I not warn people about this? Am I mistaken?