I gave up the SMTP hosting dream earlier this year after like 10 years of it never quite working out as well as I hoped. My friends had email addresses on their

I gave up the SMTP hosting dream earlier this year after like 10 years of it never quite working out as well as I hoped. My friends had email addresses on their custom domains hosted on my server, I was essentially their one-stop-shop for web hosting until it became just too much. Web hosting was easier, but email hosting was always the problem. Unless you're an expert in email, and it's all you do and it's your passion in life, it's just not worth hosting it yourself.