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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by giantg2 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:57PM (#28351242)
Seems pretty cool. A little pricey and maybe even overpowered. The biggest thing that holds me back from hosting my own server is probably lack of static IP and the time/cognitive overhead of maintenance/security.
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by davidzweig on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:05PM (#28351307)
For IP, you can get a domain adress from namecheap then set up dynamic DNS (https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...). Maintenance/security.. log in from time to time and run 'apt update && apt upgrade' ?
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by gsreenivas on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:10PM (#28351345)
residential IP addresses are generally blacklisted by email services
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by slenk on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:57PM (#28352425)
yeah but so are AWS ips
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by teitoklien on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:19AM (#28353669)
Ive been using aws ip’s to send emails all the time Never had one flagged because of ip reputation.

Both using ses and directly sending emails via a aws vps

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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by slenk on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:17PM (#28360407)
Wow. That honestly surprises me. I had been using Linode for my mail servers because of better IP rep
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by gsreenivas on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:56PM (#28352684)
we have blocks of AWS IPs with no issues and we also have our own IP blocks
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by roberto on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:46PM (#28351541)
I use https://hoppy.network/ for a static IP via WireGuard for $8/month. And https://mailinabox.email/ has made email administration super simple.
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by notimetorelax on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:02PM (#28351284)
Have been hosting home servers behind DynamicDNS for 5 years now. Have never had any issues because of it. E.g. Namecheap supports the protocol - no need for extra subscription.
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by movedx on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:16PM (#28351377)
But are you hosting your own emails? That's the important thing here. Everything else is fine, but hosting and operating a custom email service is hard if you want to also reach other people's inboxes.
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