We’re big proponents of self-hosting services you can’t live without because you never know when a company will disappear, and keeping your data on a device you control is a huge privacy boost. Whether that’s saving backups of your devices, running a media server, or a mesh VPN service, keeping it in-house on your own network-attached storage (NAS) means you’re in control.
One account that should be firmly under your control is your email. Self-hosting an email server is great for privacy and stops the hosting provider from scanning your inbox for advertising reasons. It puts you in charge of spam filters, encryption settings, and forwarding rules and enables the use of custom domains for your email, but that’s also a double-edged sword, because when you’re in charge,…