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You can also actually not self-hosting the database but have your documents hosted on some WebDAV server you control.

Me neither. And I’ve been using them for 6ish year. That said, mistakes may happen, so…

Thanks. Bookmarked.

“It’s always DNS”

Again, you do you.

Me on a RPi4.

More than 2 years with my personal domain and I can’t remember a single spam email… But you do you.

A catch-all domain address with whois privacy and hosted elsewhere helps a lot.

Cloudflare-ddns in docker

Indeed. My bank surely does this better than I could ever do. But if it’s “for fun”, then it’s fine.

+1 for Hetzner

YW 😄

I have a couple of no-brand SATA-USB enclosers with some jmicron chipset. Can’t remember the exact chipset right now, as my RPi is not working ATM (see edit).

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX should do the job

Yeah, I use something like this, a no-brand enclosure.

I’m using a couple of cheap Kingston A400 for my setup (120 and 480 GB) and they work just fine. One thing I noticed is that the 120 GB one’s health went down to 92%, from 100%, in “just” one year (smart parameter). But that’s implies a lifetime of more that 12 years, so I’m not excessively concerned.

EDIT: of course, just after writing this comment the smaller SSD began to behave strangely (errors in dmesg).

I have a couple of subdomains there and yes, it may take a few days for the confirmation. I guess there’s indeed some kind of human review.

Was about to suggest Zoho myself. I have a couple of personal domain email hosted there and they’ve been very reliable until now

I have a .de domain with them. No personal info are shown on whois info.

Was on Namesilo. No complaints, save for the slow website. Changed to porkburn because it was a bit cheaper.