This isn't FUD and I still run my own, I'm just saying that some people have given up dealing with the hassle. These are even people who have effectively free z

This isn't FUD and I still run my own, I'm just saying that some people have given up dealing with the hassle. These are even people who have effectively free zero dollar 1U rack spaces for colo, bandwidth at the small to mid sized regional ISPs that they themselves run engineering operations at. For the record I do not endorse bowing to the pressure of the gsuite/office365 monopolists. One of the important parts that's hard to solve for a person who doesn't work at an ISP these days is that you absolutely don't want to be in a /24 netblock (and parent /22, /20, etc) that also contains $5 per month VPS/VM/hosting customers. Because the inevitable result of having shared hosting IP space where anyone with a pulse and credit card can buy a VM for one month for 5 dollars is that your IP space will end up on some blacklists/spam lists/opaque and not publicly available spam-blockage lists run by gmail, because other peoples' server IPs in the same adjacent ranges announced into global BGP tables by the same ASN have historically been a source of spam/UCE within the past 12, 24, 36 months.