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> I want to eventually move away, especially gmail and drive. Run it yourself! Get yourself a solid hosting company with shared webhosting. For Germany, hetzn
by martin_a 5y ago
> I want to eventually move away, especially gmail and drive.
Run it yourself!
Get yourself a solid hosting company with shared webhosting. For Germany, hetzner or all-inkl would be my choice.
A hetzner "Level 1" shared webhosting for 1,90 €/month will come with an included TLD of your choice. Use that to host your own mailboxes. 10 GB webspace should be good for that, too.
Then install a NextCloud instance on that webhost. Add a hetzner "Storage Box", 3,45 €/month will give you 1 TB of space which can be mounted into the NextCloud through a free plugin.
That way you have mail and your own cloud for 5,50 €/month for as long as you pay the bill...
- kashyapc 5y ago> Run it yourself! I get where you're coming from. But, most people just simply don't have the appetite to run their own mail. What we need are: paid services that are reasonably reliable, secure, respect your privacy, and provide human-based customer support. PS: I myself use Hetzner (for non-email stuff), and a hosted NextCloud service - both are great :)
- martin_a 5y agoRunning your own mail is creating the mailbox and letting your mail client figure out how to connect to the server. There's not much work to do besides that. I think that's fine for anyone interested in becoming "independent" from services.