On 2016-07-06 10:53, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
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.
Thankfully, my ISP is very reliable, and we don't have significant
outages that make this a problem. It happens from time to time, but
when it does, the problem is nearly always upstream, and resolves itself
within an hour or two. YMMV.
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:
These are all good concerns, and each admin should decide whether and
how they apply to their unique situation. For me, personally, the
security of holding my own data is of value to me, as well as the
challenge that online cloud storage is quite expensive compared to local
storage.
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?
Yes, I do have systems in place for if I die. Passwords are in a
password vault, and I do have a subset of those password stored in a
secure location, sufficient for my executor to access the vault or
migrate the services to an alternate provider, with the assistance of
admin friends. As I get older, I expect I'll simplify these setups
somewhat, but I'm happy with the tradeoffs I've selected right now.
If email happened to go down at the exact time I was in the hospital,
we'd just switch to other communications services during the crisis (IM,
SMS, Facebook messenger, etc.)
--Ted
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