i am now 3 years into selfhosting emails. i had initial hickups with regards to gmail and especially outlook declaring all emails as spam but sadly i was past

i am now 3 years into selfhosting emails. i had initial hickups with regards to gmail and especially outlook declaring all emails as spam but sadly i was past that pretty quickly. i recently set up a similar VPS for a friend, took me half an hour from domain/vps purchase to a fully functional server. Surprisingly, gmail did not spam their emails including attachments so maybe they are improving? i'd say the upside of this is so much more than relying on a third party. Sure you are responsible for the server (use backblaze backups) but i haven't had a problem in the 3 years so i am a happy user. i login every 6 months or so, do a bash update and log back out. That's about it i do regarding maintenance so its not even a big deal.