Re: would it be possible to host a wordpress site using my own vps?
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You really, really, really do not want to go down the hosting your own e-mail route. If you do, and you get it wrong, your domain may get permanently flagged as spam with major e-mail providers, and there is no recourse. This is something you either get right the first time or not at all, and then you've only really got it right until you get hacked (and since e-mails with organic traffic are really valuable in that sense, yes people will try; and before you ask how they find you, you can scan the entire IP V4 address space in an afternoon). yeah you can prove the domain is yours, but that just means you've proven the domain is yours if someone starts using it for spam, and you still get blocked anyway.
If you're looking to run a big multi-user setup then yes, gsuite is going to be expensive. But if it's just for you then I'd go that route.
if you actually want to go through with this, I can't help you because I've never done it. Quite apart from the issues around getting flagged as spam and being hacked, you're also putting yourself in the position of having to maintain this. If it goes down or goes wrong, e-mails are going to just not get delivered, and that means that unless you're 100% confident in the security/stability of the setup, you can't ever use the address for anything important in case it decides to swallow i.e. job applications. And if you're going to be running this for other people as well, you also take on the responsibility of not swallowing their e-mails. People aren't just going to try again later like with a web site. This isn't "O I couldn't download a game" or something.
And if you really do have a bunch of users, they're not going to be able to all just go tell everyone that their e-mail address changed when this inevitably goes wrong. E-mails are forever.
So: are you really prepared for the fallout of this? I get budget concerns, but if budget is a concern then you should really just tell people to use their personal addresses because those will be reliable, and either not bother with domain e-mail at all or only buy it for yourself. You can cut budget corners on WordPress because if it goes down you can just restore from a backup, but e-mail has to be up and un-hacked 24/7 and the first time you get hacked you're done, probably forever.
Sometimes things are expensive because they're genuinely hard to do.
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