I've been self hosting all of my stuff for years - websites, DNS, mail - but it's become increasingly difficult to keep the mail part afloat. Google is the most notorious roadblock - even though I have a dedicated public subnet, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, SRS and antispam implemented, and 99% of mail is plaintext with occasionaly some attachments, most of my mail is dumped into "Spam" on their side, both for gmail and the business services. Sometimes even delivering is being refused at connect time. The amount of time I lose on calling people and checking their spam folder is just too much, knowing I have a business to run with those mails.
My stuff runs at Hetzner (dedicated hardware, /29 subnet for myself). From what I've read in a mail thread here earlier, the problem is almost certainly with the network reputation of Hetzner; bad neighbours drag down the whole netblock, and I'm collateral damage. Nothing can be done except moving to another hoster and praying I don't bump into the same problem there. I'm tired of fighting the windmills. Protonmail looks good on paper; it's not cheap, but neither is my hosting now. Does anyone have experience with them? Any catches? Alternatives? Thanks, Lennert
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