Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
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email is incredibly complicated to host yourself successfully due to security, dns requirements. i have a pretty good handle on how to do it, but i havent since ~ 2015 because of the constant upkeep and challenges from the email ecosystem at large.
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Do you have Bluehost web hosting plan? In that case, Bluehost would do the most heavy lifting regarding the derliverability. Email deliverability with big hosts like that shouldn't be a problem.
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If you are willing to study the subject and become advanced at it, go for it. Otherwise, use an existing mail service, possibly with your own domain, but stay away from the mail protocols and requirements.
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You can point your domain on any hoster like mailbox.org. There are a lot of benefits at not hosting your own mailserver.
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To give some context, the special edition of that book has a different title that hints at how very challenging it is to get it right when you host your own server.
Typically, it’s much better to own a domain and pair it with FastMail or other reputable email provider.
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I managed to get my mails through 95% of servers I've tried, and after evaluating the 5% that didn't accept my mail, I just realized they can suck my man-tits. But maybe those 5% in your case might be recipients you value.
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I hosted my own for a while. We could never send to gmail though and they are saddly too important.
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Which 5%
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That worked like a charm for me, but some strange German mall hoster demanded the blood of an unborn unicorn or something like that for it to work.
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German hoster united internet. The few people I know with those addresses receive a signal message.
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I've done this for years.
One of the benefits is that you can always just set up Gmail to pull from Pop and send with SMTP anytime if you're not ready to give up Gmail yet and then just turn it off when you are without the need to announce a change in email.
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I only dipped my toes into email hosting at a (terrible) job, the effort and complaints when things didn’t send/receive properly was too much.
That being said, personally I’ve used Gmail and I’m ready to get rid of it. I’ve got a domain I’d like to start using.
What’s everyone’s preference for provider? (I’m avoiding Proton Mail due to the CEO’s recent controversy)
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I moved over to fastmail and have been enjoying it, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who will tell me why it was the wrong choice.
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I bought a domain name and got a web host. I set the index page to be blank and only use the web host for email. It works well. I still have gmail but try to move everything to my own domain email.
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Get your own domain. Don't host your own.
I've had the same domain on gmail, proton and now purelymail.
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Running a mail infrastructure properly is a complex problem. I would not recommend it for most people. There's a reason most companies outsource it these days.
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But why support the Nazi sympathizer?
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completely debatable if you dig into it, which i have.
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I’ve been happy with Fastmail.
The cost isn’t too bad at $5/mo per user.
The wildcard email thing is cool. You can use addresses like [email protected] to hand out to companies on the fly.
I may go back to hosting my own, but I have no complaints with Fastmail at all.
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Do enlighten us all.
