I've used a couple sources in the past including Heroku. I found Heroku at the time (this was more than two years ago) to be an adequate solution, but it was a

I've used a couple sources in the past including Heroku. I found Heroku at the time (this was more than two years ago) to be an adequate solution, but it was a little tedious and a little pricey. Nonetheless it had all sorts of easy integrations like Mailchimp and such that my Django application could easily use. Today, with things like Digital Ocean, I wouldn't re-use Heroku for Django hosting. You also wrote that you'd like to roll your own email server, so I think that would cut out Heroku completely. I think you'd be most interested in trying out Digital Ocean for a bit. Start with a $5 server and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-django-one-click-install-image https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-... see if it works for you or not. $5 isn't much to lose on an experiment and if it works for you, you can spin up one of their other issues