Dnia 24.02.2022 o godz. 09:30:27 Grant Taylor via mailop pisze: > > What I don't know is if this qualifies as "hosting entirely > yourself". Does the reliance on a VPS to be an L3 endpoint break > "entirely"? Does substituting the VPS with a box that you Co-Lo > change anything?
I guess theres no single answer to that question that everybody will agree upon :). But as for me, I would understand hosting any service X (be it email, web or anything else) "entirely" at your home (on a home server) as the case when that home server provides everything needed for the service X to work (except of course the Internet connection itself and maybe DNS, as you should have at least secondary DNS server somewhere outside your network). No other resources (even belonging to you, but outside your home) and/or third parties are involved (of course - again - except your ISP who provides your home Internet connection). If you use a VPS or even a colocated server in a data center, that is no more the case when you use *only* the home server. And if you need a VPS (or colocated box), why not host your mail entirely on that VPS? Mail storage does not need a lot of disk and even a small VPS will do (as an example, currently my entire mailbox, which contains mail archives since 1997, is little under 9 GB in size), and it's simpler - you do not need to split the service between two servers. And in this particular case we are discussing, not only a VPS is involved, but also a 3rd party service that acts both as a MX for incoming mail and as an outgoing SMTP server that actually delivers mail to recipients. The OP even said that the VPS could be omitted, but the 3rd party service is essential for him. For me, that definitely doesn't qualify as self-hosting. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
