You Should NOT Host Your Own Email Server

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Hosting your own email server can be a complex and challenging task that requires a significant amount of technical expertise, time, and resources. There are several reasons why it is generally not recommended for most individuals or small businesses to host their own email server.

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[eastwind]

I run my own mail servers and never a single one of them got blacklisted or hacked. So please.

[YourComputer]

How do these points not also apply to a third-party email service? Sounds self-refuting.

[mijanur]

Hi Alex,

I hope you are doing really well. I have been watching your cloud hosting-related videos for a few weeks now. Recently, Namecheep suggested that I migrate my shared hosting to their cloud hosting (One kind of force).

Unfortunately, I didn't have a way to do that at the time. I'm not very technical, and after migrating my hosting to the cloud, I realized that I don't know much about cloud hosting.

I am commenting here to find out if it's possible for me to migrate my website back to shared hosting with another hosting company. I would appreciate your answer as I'm not sure about this. It would be great if I could get back my old cPanel.

Thanks,

[gancarczyk_net]

Do you know any (possibly free or cheap) SMTP relay service that does not add the "List-unsubscribe" header? I'm sending personal e-mails, not a mailing list :(

[rewardja]

I think this is directly depends on the kind of marketing you intend on doing

[kokngonose]

what about for only receiving email but for sending email use something like postmarkapp? is it still worth the cost you think?

[Lee-ee]

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[andresalemany]

This the closest explanation to understanding email. Idk why it isnt explained more so thank you very much for this explanation

[aperson]

Would you recommend namesilo? Are they good?

[draganjurjevic]

hello A
Many of my business clients want to have their own mail server (plesk, cpanel, hmailserver). The reason is data privacy...

[Mugruokgt]

Please make an updated video - does this still stand after their 2/2024 algo update (gmail)?

Have a friend that has seen an ENORMOUS deliverability boost from a vps.

[dhetherington]

Totally agree, I have a new client who's email is hosted on a techies email server which is setup to use POP3, not used pop3 in 10 years. I've got the job of migrating 10 emails to exchange. I was hoping to use the Microsoft email migration tool but I don't think that is an option?

[aleksandarjevtimijevic]

What do you think about cpanel email and roundcube client, that's what we get with shared hosting. I personally had no major problems, I'm interested in your experience, whether it worked for you or not, and what you propose as an adequate alternative. Thank you

[geehammer]

Would it be possible to fire out emails from your server via rotational 4G Mobile proxies?

[LabiaLicker]

Would be good to have a video regarding this but specific to self hosting email in australia. isps etc...

[darinjohnson]

That is why something like a Rackspace is a better idea in the long run.