On 2016-07-06 10:17, Ted Cabeen wrote: > You've gotten lots of good answers. The only other one I'd want to mention is > that you can also host your personal email out of your home server and use an > AWS t2.nano instance to proxy the email in and out. That eliminates storage > charges for those of us with rather large email archives. At $72 for a 3-year > reserved AWS t2.nano instance, the cost is super-low.
The issue with this, is that you no longer have access to email when your ISP is down. This used not to be a problem, because no ISP meant no internet anyway, but these days with internet access via your phone, and the usefulness of email especially when there is an ISP outage, I think it is better to host outside home. I am myself hosting a few services at home, but am migrating all of it on VPSes ro cloud services, using home for backup and playground: - You can still access your consoles, reboot etc... on VPS/cloud even if away from home, say on holiday or business trip - no loss of access when your ISP is down - although this depends, if your on old fashion cable, your down bandwidth is much higher than you up bandwidth, so it make sense to backup from cloud to home, rather then the other way around. -storage at home vs cloud is much cheapre, so again it make sense to use home to backup all your cloud services. - cloud/VPS have redundant hardware and paid staff to take care of hardware issues (typically the shoemaker's children saying apply to most sysadmin's system!) Also, and this is a bigger issue that I've been wanting to address in its own thread: Do you have a sysadmin "buddy" who understands and have access to your home system? If not, and you have dependants using your home system, have you given any thought about how they will deal with an email outage when you are in the hospital in critical condition, or just died? -- http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
