simpleIs... Is this a threat?
4amThey’ve been acting desperate lately.
I wonder what the enshitification track looks like for a cloud data hosting company. I use it because it is convenient, has good coverage (iOS, windows and Linux (kinda)). Not secure, but I treat it like a big post card repository. What are folks using instead?
VlynIf you have your own server (or VPS) you can use Seafile. Works well enough to sync your data.
What’s a bit problematic is integrations. For example on Android there are apps that can automatically sync data over Dropbox. Using your own solution doesn’t really work there.
Yes. Digital Ocean was suggested by a colleague. When I looked it up it just took too much work for all the platforms I use. I’m happy to see all the suggestions I’m getting tho.
I personally rent a small VPS (At www.netcup.eu, German hoster) with Ubuntu server and use Mailcow (as Docker container) with it.
Setting this up was relatively quick (2-3 hours maybe?), but you really need to know what you’re doing. Like getting started with the container is easy, but you also have to set up DNS for your server, reverse DNS and several things for your email server to look legit (DKIM, certificates, spf DNS entry, …).
After the setup it runs well, though there are still things you’ll have to be careful about. Like making sure that your certificate (usually LetsEncrypt, it’s free) gets switched out regularly in the container (with a post-certificate-renewal hook usually).
Overall, quite a headache if you don’t like to mess around with things.
And even worse if you fully rely on that mail server for important things. I still don’t use my own one for work, banking, taxes and so on, just too risky.
