Hosting email is bad because the few companies everyone tells everyone to use run email. It is fine if hosting email isn’t for you but discouraging others to not try is exactly how we lose ground ona completely open protocol. Everyone who is willing should host email. There are “distros” like mailinabox and mailcow that make it very easy. The more folks that host it the more the larger hosts will have to start to be more of a tram player.

This is exactly what I came here to find. Thank you for posting it. If I can be so bold selfhosters should really be leaning this way searxng is great but it still uses big tech.

The other thing we need is a way to identify good crawling agents or *smol agents over corporate bots that just steal content.

If selfhosters can unite and build a good index perhaps searching can go back to the way it was vs a vector to sell you more and collect your data.

Borg resumes where failed backups left off so if you keep running it until it completes it’ll dedupe what is already there and eventually finish leaving you with just incremental backups.

What servers or smaller form factors are going for a good price?

Check out caddy. Very straight forward syntax for a reverse proxy.

What advantages do you think the paid cert has over letsencrypt?

Ampache FTW

Draper’s law: Any screen a company can control will eventually display ads.