I'm pretty non-savvy about servers, but I have been trying to learn ansible, and at the same time I wanted to consolidate some personal servers, so I used this

I'm pretty non-savvy about servers, but I have been trying to learn ansible, and at the same time I wanted to consolidate some personal servers, so I used this to deploy more-or-less the same thing on DO the other day: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign https://github.com/al3x/sovereign My experience was that it wasn't impossible, and faster than spinning up a postfix/dovecot server by hand... but it was really buggy and lots of little problems. As far as I could tell, there were some problems using the encfs with the kernal DO uses, and that took a lot of troubleshooting. I am thinking that at some point there will be a setup that is as easy as, say, spinning out a wordpress site on shared hosting.