I've had a VPS running the free version of Axigen server for I don't even know how long. 10 years? The first year was rough because I didn't know what I was do

I've had a VPS running the free version of Axigen server for I don't even know how long. 10 years? The first year was rough because I didn't know what I was doing. Mail would not go to or from certain domains with no indication of why. Once I finally figured out all the security settings, it's fine. My domain will talk to anyone (including Google) and has been for several years. My private email is my primary account. It's on a domain with my name, so I use it everywhere. Is it worth it? Absolutely not. I wouldn't recommend you run your own server unless you just want the experience. It's far, far easier and cheaper to just buy the domain name and use the inbox your registrar offers. Or a paid service to host email under your custom domain. For me, I have other users on this service, and the cost and risk of migrating them to a new service is way, way too much. I'd have to decrypt their inboxes and merge them into the new service, and I just don't want to go there, so I keep this server ticking over until we all die I guess