I’m aware most ISPs do not allow for port 25 to be open for email use outside of business licenses, but at what level is that controlled? Can I get around that by owning my own router? Owning my own modem or ONT? Or is this just a thing they mystically control further up the pipeline that a relative layman such as myself can’t get around?

  • KasanMoor@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m not terribly worried about a service seeing my traffic, the initial concept was for a self-hosted server to run a business email and site and some tools on, but I can’t do email through my ISP without paying an arm and a leg, and my business doesn’t make enough for that…

    • ChoccyMilk@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      For a small business, a service such as GoogleApps or Microsoft365 is likely going to be a cheaper solution than self hosting this. Plus including productivity applications and cloud storage as part of the package in most instances.

      It will be much, much safer as well. If you’re unsure of how to do this, do not do it yourself. Setup a home lab, sure. Use it to learn but do not run your business this way!

      Source: Am e-mail admin.

      • KasanMoor@beehaw.orgOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        Is there a service that is only email? Most of the offerings in those packages are either too much bloat of applications that are unnecessary, and/or are too expensive for what they actually would provide that we would use.

        I’d much rather keep using the tools that we’re used to and have set up than move to a different ecosystem, especially one that tracks a lot of the data we use with it