I’m currently relaying through an MXRoute account, but I’ve used SMTP2Go too and they have a decent free plan with 1000 emails per month.

It doesn’t detect the settings

Autodiscovery needs DNS SRV entries to be added for each domain. The legacy Exchange- and Outlook-specific way was a file at /autodiscover/autodiscover.xml but I don’t know if email clients still use that.

I have to ignore the certificate warning

I’m not familiar with Stalwart but you should be able to use Let’s Encrypt certificates.

This reminds me of a restaurant we have in Australia called “Lord of the Fries”.

So far I haven’t been able to find anything as good in the USA.

I self-host my emails, but use an SMTP relay for sending. IMO, the interesting part of self hosting email is the storage. Outbound sending is more complex and there’s not as much benefit to self-hosting it.

I use Mailcow and have it configured to use a relay per domain. Email clients use the Mailcow server as their SMTP server, and Mailcow (well, Postfix) handles sending it to the appropriate relay.

Keen is crap since moving production to china

A lot of people have an outdated view of the quality of stuff made in China. They think that everything is bad quality just because their $2 Aliexpress item doesn’t last forever.

Most iPhones are made in China for example. Like anywhere, there’s both good quality and bad quality products, depending on how much the company is willing to pay. Sometimes the quality is actually higher - for example, Tesla Model 3s manufactured in China have far fewer issues with road noise, panel alignment, and overall fit and finish compared to the ones manufactured in the USA. These days, China has far more experience with manufacturing, and a lot of the raw components (especially for electronics) come from China anyways.

Some companies that outsource manufacturing to China also lower their standards at the same time. It’s not the manufacturing in China that’s the problem; it’s the company’s decision to cheapen their product.

you can override this by setting an IP on the port exposed so thet a local only server is only accessable on 127.0.0.1

Also, if the Docker container only has to be accessed from another Docker container, you don’t need to expose a port at all. Docker containers can reach other Docker containers in the same compose stack by hostname.

If you are good at manipulating iptables there is a way around this

Modern systems shouldn’t be using iptables any more.

How do you eat sleep?

Yeah, a Black Friday sale.

They do have some deals always available, but the specs aren’t as good as the Black Friday ones: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale

RackNerd also have some deals that are always available on their site. .

I’m running mine on a ~$33/year VPS at GreenCloudVPS. It’s a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers). It’s a decently powerful VPS with an AMD EPYC Milan CPU, 10GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage.

For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.

Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it’s less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won’t help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn’t magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.

If you want to try alternate UIs, you might be interested in trying Photon and Alexandrite.

It is encrypted at their end - they say the data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.

However, it’s not end-to-end encrypted, in the usual meaning of the term. E2EE usually means that only the sender and intended recipients of the data can decrypt the it, not the company running the service, their affiliates, or any intermediaries.

Their deep investigations are so good. I liked their documentary about GPU smuggling in China.

If you don’t mind a web UI, Netdata is great. It collects a bunch of metrics once per second and can retain them for a long period of time. The web UI is pretty good. Their Github readme links to some example servers so you can try it out first. Just click the link to use it without an account (that’s optional).

It’s mainly designed for servers, but there’s no reason you couldn’t run it on a client system. They’re focusing a lot on AI/ML-based anomaly detection as well as their cloud offering at the moment, but you don’t have to use either and can just stick to the open-source agent.

Just because something’s written in the terms of service, doesn’t mean it’s legal.

Still up here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maybe only some regions are affected.

I like my local libraries. They’re decently funded (through property tax in an area where it’s very common to see multi-million dollar houses), and they have 4K Blu-rays and recent releases. They’ve got things like 3D printers, too.

Get a better keyboard app.

and Chinese EVs.

But of course they won’t do that, because they need to prop up the US car industry and its outdated technology.