• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I got tired of all the problems with providers and learned how to run my own mail server twenty years ago. Certainly not an option for most people but I would never go back to relying on someone else for something I can do at home.

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      1 year ago

      I used to do that too around back in 2005-2006. Then my ISP started blocking important ports and stuck us all on DHCP. For me, that’s when the internet started to suck. It’s just gotten worse and worse.

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        1 year ago

        Well I’m lucky there… my city is my ISP, and I pay for the static IPs. I have completely unlimited access on my connection.

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      1 year ago

      I’d rather rely on someone else, I think it’s unlikely that Gmail, outlook, protonmail, etc would go down without me hearing about it. I can’t afford to have my emails bounce for days until I both realise its happening and have the time to figure out the problem and fix it.

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        1 year ago

        I spend so much time at my computer that I usually see a problem before anyone else does. Worst case here is emails might bounce overnight but they eventually get delivered.