{"id":843,"date":"2011-08-08T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:21:47","slug":"hosting-your-own-e-mail-sevrer-no-longer-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Hosting your own e-mail sevrer: no longer an option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somone on Slashdot asked what are possible &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/08\/07\/1533224\/Ask-Slashdot-Self-Hosted-Gmail-Alternatives\">Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives?<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it seems like in practice there are none. When I registered my domain, I used to run an e-mail server too, but eventually I had to turn it off. The main problem was, of course, spam. Lots of it. Then the outages. Whenever my server was down, I would not be able to get any e-mails. Then other servers started to blacklist me, because I was running off a residential IP. I was getting auto-responses politely advising me to use my ISP&#8217;s mail server. Finally, due to the spam pressure, the ISP closed port 25 for all communications except to their own SMTP server.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to human greed and ignorance that breed spam, something that used to be an open communication network of e-mail servers is now reduced to an elite club where only the big players can survive, and <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/spamsolutions.txt\">there is not solution in sight<\/a>. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, these days I would think twice before hosting any kind of server at home. By doing so, you expose yourself to security risks, reliability issues (do you have a UPS? do you have reliable backup?), and other interesting things.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I must confess I still run my web server from home: not on my main work PC, of course. I do have a backup, but I don&#8217;t have UPS. I don&#8217;t consider my web site mission critical \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somone on Slashdot asked what are possible &#8220;Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives?&#8220;. Unfortunately, it seems like in practice there are none. When I registered my domain, I used to run an e-mail <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=843\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}