Kyle, thanks for all that. I'll check out the links you provide and go
through your reply carefully soon.
Best!
Al
On 3/4/22 13:31, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Do you have pointers to information how to do that? I'm none too sure
I know enough, but I'd like to check it out.
Sure. Aside from my experiences with LineageOS for MicroG
https://lineage.microg.org/
that I just posted, I have a vps that runs email, and it also has
NextCloud running on it. In order to self-host websites and even your
NextCloud, you can probably use a home-based server if your connection
is good enough, but because email providers have done all they can to
keep regular users from being able to host their own email so that
they can get all the traffic, back in the day they used to call that
traffic pumping, and it was frowned upon, well these days, they call
it security and that makes everything OK. In any case, now you need a
VPS (virtual private server) in order to send email that won't get
marked as spam or outright rejected by most of the big names that will
likely hold the email addresses for the recipients of most of your
emails. The easiest and least expensive way to get started with that
is by using
cloud.oracle.com/
which has a completely free forever pricing tier. You can get 200GB of
disk space, 1 64-bit single-core AMD virtual machine with 1GB of RAM
and as many as 4 Ampere ARM processor cores with 24GB of RAM, all
completely free. They also have some database stuff among other things
that you can get to go along with that, but I find the complete
virtual server configurations to be the most effective for my hosting
needs. Their OS images are limited to primarily Ubuntu LTS and Oracle
Linux, which is essentially CentOS (before it was CentOS Stream), so I
would wait until Ubuntu 22.04 is released and becomes available, as
you probably don't want 20.04 now. This free pricing tier will help
most people who just want to host their own stuff, all except mail,
which may require paying a small fee to get support to set up the
reverse DNS for email hosting. There is nothing else free or even
close that will do all of what you can host with Oracle, but many
people will want to avoid them as well, and I only mention them
because of the price, which truly is unbeatable for all you can get.
That said, I currently have my self-hosted email, NextCloud and other
websites on a server at SKB Enterprise, hosted in Amsterdam, "one of
the biggest internet hubs of the world," because Oracle has not
exactly been trustworthy over the years, and also because I just found
out about 3 months ago about Oracle Cloud, and actually, they haven't
disappointed me yet, with the exception of the reverse DNS (PTR
record) that they don't have in the console where I can set it up
myself, so email would be a pain to get going without getting caught
by most spam detection systems. I have a referral link for SKB
Enterprise that you can check out by going to
https://clients.skb-enterprise.com/aff.php?aff=94
The price for a 100GB disk, 2 AMD CPU cores and 4GB of RAM is 6.50
euros,or they have a 50GB disk, a single AMD core and 2GB of RAM,
suitable for most basic services you may want to self-host, for 3.50
euros.
. I have also used ChunkHost
https://chunkhost.com/r/Kyle
which offers 50GB of disk space, a single AMD CPU core and 2GB of RAM,
doubled to 4GB if you pay for a full year, for $5/month ($60/year),
hosted in Los Angeles, California, which also has fairly good
connectivity.
As for getting email and websites themselves up and running, the best
and easiest thing I've found is ISPConfig
https://ispconfig.org/
It's just a control panel that you install on your Ubuntu, Debian or
CentOS server, and it makes setting up websites and especially email
boxes nearly as easy as the proverbial pie. I personally like
caddyserver for websites, but it doesn't do for mail what it does for
websites, and ISPConfig doesn't support it. But it does support
Apache, which is one of the only servers available that supports
.htaccess for everything from rewrites to custom error pages written
in php to all kinds of other things that are distributed with most
open source web applications, so I'm good with that. ISPConfig does
require some emulated mouse clicks using Orca, but it really is one of
the easiest ways to get things going, and the Perfect Server tutorials
on HowtoForge are highly valued as well.
Well, this is getting rather long, and probably more involved than
what you wanted, but that's my basic starter kit, so feel free to ask
me any questions.
~Kyle
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