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Just a quick reminder to those looking for web services alternatives based in EU - there’s a quite an easy way of self-hosting it all by yourself and remain fairly independent of any 3rd party decisions to monetize, move or shut down services, or use your private data:

  • The cheapest EU & Co based Virtual Private Server (VPS). Could cost you up to 5 bob/month.
  • Linux OS of your choice (I’d personally recommend Debian since CentOS is now gone and its alternatives for servers are not well established yet). Free.
  • ISPConfig hosting control panel. Free and somewhere EU based as I understand it. I’ve been using it on and off for about 15 years.
  • Your own domain name. Try to avoid *.zip one for your email server… Let’s say that will set you back by up to 20 bob/year.
  • A step by step tutorial on how to set it all up. Encryption, spam filter, antivirus, email fetching and webmail all come free!
  • (Optional) You probably will need to ask your VPS provider to open certain email ports for you.

That’s it - you have your own little hosting set up, which you can use for your websites as well! And whatever else more advanced you may want to try in the future! Add a couple of your friends and relatives with their own domain names into it - and you may even be in profit!

  • xavierA
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    9 days ago

    I have ben using Google workspace for like 10 years now, since the time they give free accounts for 10 users. I also have Gmail and Hotmail accounts. Years ago had an european mail accounts (telefónica), but the service was shutdown.

    I am now on my way to degoogle: Just bought a new domain for some services, installed lemmy, and try a password recover and… the mail reached inbox in my workspace domain, with just an warning because I have no DKIM in the new domain.

    I have ben working for hosting companies since 2010, and I know this is the exception: maintaining a selfhosted mail server is mostly a nightmare… I would like to explore the option to selfhost and them use a relay, but also seen this yesteday : https://salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/docker-nncpnet-mailnode/-/wikis/home on ! [email protected]… Will investigate and may try ir.

    If nothing else work, I will switch to Proton.

    I just pray for Mistral to catch up Gemini…

    (By the way, this is my first post on lemmy, so hello Lemmy!)