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0 pointstcfunk8y ago0 comments

You'd be hard-pressed to find a VPS to rent and host your own email server for much less than $5/mo. And that's just an empty server! Now you've gotta set up the email software and hope to god people get your emails since they aren't coming from a reputable source.

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zimpenfish8y ago

You can get a Scaleways machine for €2.99 a month which will handle a reasonable volume of email.

BUT. The ongoing faff and arsing about and maintenance isn't fun. If I didn't have many, many accounts for me and other people on my servers, I'd have migrated to FastMail a long time ago.

tcfunkOP8y ago

Never heard of Scaleway...those prices seem to beat the pants of DigitalOcean. Might have to look into that, thank you for mentioning.

smacktoward8y ago

(Disclaimer: anecdata follows)

The Mastodon instance I use is hosted at Scaleway. It's had multiple multi-day outages due to failures at Scaleway's end.

Cheap is great and all, but this experience has not been the kind that would lead me to recommend using Scaleway for any service you need to be reliable.

ams61108y ago

They (Scaleway) are ARM machines, no?

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