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Yeah, one could make a similar argument with self-hosting: How the data is transferred physically through undersea optical cables, how internet routing works an
by fredsted 6y ago
Yeah, one could make a similar argument with self-hosting: How the data is transferred physically through undersea optical cables, how internet routing works and the complexity of it down to how the hardware underlying his Nextcloud installation works. It is really a miracle that it all works, though.
I've been self-hosting my e-mail, and I'm thinking of switching to Google Apps, Fastmail or Protonmail due to the fact that sometimes my emails just go directly to spam. There's also the worry that my server might get hacked, and the maintenance that you often have to do. My time is orders of magnitude more than the few dollars a month all this costs.
- mosselman 6y agoThere are privacy conscious alternatives to the expensive providers such as proton. Mailbox.org is the one I went with, but there are others. Many provide inbox encryption through gpg. I could be very wrong, which I often am, but I believe that proton is also inbox encrypting like you would with gpg and their service is some sort of wrapper around that. The downside to proton for me was price and having to use their client. There is an “imap-bridge” that you can run, but that feels hacky and in the end if I really wanted all that I could also opt into using the aforementioned providers with gpg inbox encryption.