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Bringing self hosting to lambda users is _REALLY_ hard and Big Tech won't let you do it too easily. Many corp email smtp servers will IP block your email serve
by sylware 5y ago
Bringing self hosting to lambda users is _REALLY_ hard and Big Tech won't let you do it too easily.
Many corp email smtp servers will IP block your email server (big thanks to spamhaus), or won't support no-DNS email address and servers (which is RFC from the start) or won't have the decency to handle grey listing or will send all your emails to their spam boxes (gogol) even though ppl did remove your emails from their spambox.
IAPs won't provide a stable public IPv4 address or IPv6 prefix. UPNP NAT port redirection (IPv4) will have bugs on the IAP router/modem.
Buying a DNS and configuring a domain is a pain. So few DNS registrars support automatic domain configuration via the standard dynDNS protocol (is this even a thing?).
The self-hosting devices on user domestic LANs will be pown by very "smart" hackers pushing those very users towards big tech (I wonder who is pay... pushing such hackers to do that...).
The path of least resistance will win, always, even if it means giving way to much power to some corps:
Lambda users _will use_ comfy centralized services mostly, and those centralized services, once big, will try to zap away any alternatives or interop (which most used in the first place to get there).
Like lambda users _will use only_ the pre-installed OS on the computer (or mobile phone) they bought, same idea.
I am talking about nearly everybody else who is not "us", the 0.1% (ironical).
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Many corp email smtp servers will IP block your email server (big thanks to spamhaus) Nope. Spamhaus doesn't block self-hosted email servers. Spamhaus just publishes a number of lists, which postmasters can use or not, whether for filtering or just for scoring. The PBL in particular is likely to catch people self-hosting from a retail connection, because it lists most residential IP address-space. But it's the receiving mailserver that does the blocking, not Spamhaus. And it's down to the policies of the receiver's postmaster what lists are used and how they are used. That requires judgement and research, and some postmasters lack the former or don't have time for the latter.
- p_j_w 5y agoGP never said Spamhaus blocks anything.
- denton-scratch 5y agoTrue. but he did say that the blocking is "thanks to spamhaus". That is not true.
- patmorgan23 5y agoAlso I believe you could use a paid public relay service (like mailgun) to get around those blocks.
- roydivision 5y ago"lambda users"? I've not heard that term before.
- mxuribe 5y agoSame here. Is that a synonym for a lay person?
- omginternets 5y agoI suspect the grandparent is francophone. It means “run of the mill”.
- 10729287 5y agoFrench here. Lambda user is definitely the term we use for the Average Joe. Comes from Greek. Never heard of Lay Person or read about it before, happy to discover the term !
- mxuribe 5y agoThank you; today you taught me something! :-)
- remram 5y agoIt is a French idiom, meaning a random or ordinary user.
- unethical_ban 5y agoAWS Lambda, "serverless compute". No servers to manage. No runtimes to deal with. You load functions into a cloud provider (AWS for example) and feed the function inputs from other AWS services like a queue or an API endpoint. Pay only for the execution of the function based on input. It's really amazing conceptually, but like the parent said, there aren't many self-hosting options out there. IIRC there is some Apache project, but is there anything in the world for which there isn't? edit - I just realized that isn't the context of the OP's statement. Heh.
- rb666 5y agoYou can and should self-host about everything, apart from email.