It’s been a while since this question was asked. For those of you who have a private domain, who do you use? What services do you host with them? Which domain registrar do you use?
It’s been a while since this question was asked. For those of you who have a private domain, who do you use? What services do you host with them? Which domain registrar do you use?
A Thinkpad under the stairs about 10m from where I’m sitting running the default Debian mailserver & roundcube webmail. Spam filtering by rspamd. Daily backups get pushed to a raspberry pi elsewhere & I have a cold spare Thinkpad of exactly the same spec ready to roll if the first one dies. Ex-corporate Thinkpads are cheap :)
I wouldn’t actually advocate anyone else does this, but I started out twenty years ago (more possibly) & it’s kind of become entrenched.
Domain registrar & DNS comes from Mythic Beasts.
Fastmail for email. GitHub Pages for my personal site, which is a few static HTML pages. I’ve got some higher-traffic sites on S3+Cloudfront and some really tiny dynamic sites on Fly.io. One of my sites is still on Heroku, but I have zero time to move it off. Namecheap or GANDI for registry, DNSimple for DNS.
I hosted my own mail for around 7 years and I’ll probably never do that again. I’ve got a lot more budget these days to conserve my time and delegate that time suck to someone else who’s doing it for a lot of other people.
I tried FastMail and had to leave because they were dropping messages that I wanted. I tried their whitelisting instructions which was creating a contact
*@example.comfor the sending domain but they were still rejecting the messages. (I think the whitelist only applies to regular spam filtering, not the early reject logic.) I contacted support and they just said “working as intended”.I guess all providers do something like this but these messages seemed fairly reasonable and I usually wouldn’t catch it.
I’ve been on Pair for almost 25 years, including beginning in a time when I was founding my own web hosting companies and designing, implementing, and administrating the mail service for 100k people myself, for separation of concerns. They are nothing flashy, but they are solid and excellent and conservatively stable.
+1, Pair has been great for me since 2001.
I have two vanity domains. Both are registered through GANDI, one is hosted at GANDI and the other with Google Apps or whatever the hell it’s called these days.
However I’m becoming less and less pleased with Google and GANDI has been rubbing me the wrong ways lately, so I’d appreciate any recommendations y’all may have.
(For the record, I’m open to maintaining my own mail infrastructure, but last time I tried that I ended up getting mail silently dropped by Google and others, despite proper SPF records, etc, and I can’t imagine it’s gotten better recently.)
When it comes to email hosting, you have to be picky about which VPS provider you choose. Some are not as vigilant as they could be about keeping spammers/spam off their network. And once you have a reputation for spam, it tends to stick for a long time.
I host my own email and the IP of my VPS at least still has a solid reputation.
I worked for a web hosting provider in an earlier life and we had a constant stream of spammers signing up for accounts with stolen credit cards/IDs and then spamming the daylights out of the whole Internet before we could catch them. And that’s even with calling the customer up on the phone to verify them before activating the account. I can’t imagine it’s gotten any easier in the last couple of decades to be a VPS provider.
I have had good experience with vultr. They block outbound SMTP by default and require you to contact support with a reason and approximate volume of sent emails to unblock, but they process these requests very quickly. Not sure if they monitor traffic volumes, but apparently they respond to spam reports and seem to have a good reputation for their IP ranges.
Agreed, I ran mail from vultr for a while, but I got tired of the work babysitting Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. I offloaded to Migadu and haven’t looked back, but Vultr was great, the babysitting wasn’t.
For registrars, I think Hetzner is good, have been with them for a quite a while, very happy. As for email: no, it has not gotten any better - quite the contrary! I worked it around by using a relay (smtp2go) for outgoing email, which isn’t perfect, but still better than letting G handle my mail: I still have full control over my incoming mail.
I moved from Gandi to Porkbun a few months ago and I’m happy with it.
I’ve used Gandi (for registration) for years. What’s been rubbing you the wrong way? Genuinely curious, wondering if maybe it’s time to reevaluate my options.
Anything I self-host is usually on DigitalOcean because it’s fairly cheap and easy. But I self-host almost nothing these days, so it’s a very weakly-held opinion.
So they recently got bought out and their terms seemed to have changed (though by how much I couldn’t say off the top of my head).
Another thing ghag kinda got to me was a data loss event where their post mortem basically said “we don’t actually know what went wrong, something with ZFS configuration I think” and that didn’t instill a huge amount of confidence in me.
And then recently they started charging a lot more for email boxes, enough that for my little personal domain with two email addresses is getting expensive.
Been slowly migrating off Gandi myself. After getting bought out, they started eliminating previously free services like mailboxes, and doubling some of their registration fees. Been having good luck with Porkbun so far.
For mail, I’ve been trying out Purelymail. It’s low-key, but it works, the owner is responsive, and the price is unbeatable. Wouldn’t try it for commercial mail, but it works fine for my personal domain so far.
Registrar: Porkbun
DNS: AWS Route 53 (I know exactly how evil AWS is, why choose the lesser evil?)
Hosting: fly.io
Email: Google
I thought you had stopped using GMail, you mentioned it in one of your articles.
I use NearlyFreeSpeech for my domain and web hosting. I use Zoho for free email hosting on the NFS domain, but hardly ever use it directly – I just forward it to my Gmail and use “send mail as” there.
I also like NearlyFreeSpeech for registration, DNS, and basic web hosting. I use Zoho’s paid account for my main domain, and use Migadu’s $19/year micro plan to handle email for my pile of vanity domains.
I haven’t seen Purelymail mentioned yet! It’s really nice (mostly because it’s so inexpensive and lets you bring your own domain)
$10 a year!
Nice. They look like the service I was looking for when tuffmail shut down. I wound up going with migadu, and am too happy with that to switch, but is notably more expensive at $19/year.
I loooooooove Purelymail, not just for the price but also because its design and business model are simple and super stable. It’s exactly what I want and probably exactly what everyone else wants too (except for not being completely free).
For domain registration I’ve been using Gandi but see other people’s valid concerns elsewhere in this thread. I’ll probably move to nearlyfreespeech.
For VPSes and 5 TB storage, I use Hetzner and am extremely happy.
Has anyone had an issue with a registrar and had a really good experience with support? Like a thwarted domain takeover attempt or a lost password?
I don’t really care if someone has been using a registrar for decades “without issue”. It’s like having 0% code coverage and saying you have no bugs :)
Yes! I had this with namecheap. I was locked out of my account and it was because of some combination of password lost and email address deleted and/or TOTP enabled. This was in 2018 so I can’t quite remember. But through a combination of online chat and then phone support from an actual human, I was able to regain access to my account after about two hours. It was fantastic and I’m a namecheap die-hard now because of it :)
Registrar: mostly Mythic Beasts, though dotat.at has always been registered directly with nic.at. When I was running Cambridge University’s DNS I moved all the misc domain registrations to Mythic Beasts because they were better at wrangling the university’s finance system from outside the org than I was inside it.
DNS: primary on a Debian vps run by me hosted at Mythic Beasts, who provide my secondaries. I know several of the Mythic Beasts staff personally, and I know where Pete Stevens lives. They have been running successfully for over 20 years now (25 maybe) and among other sites they host RaspberryPi.com.
Mail: Fastmail, since I stopped running email at Cambridge University about 10 years ago. Cambridge had a mail system based on Cyrus IMAP, with a custom replication protocol written by my colleague David Carter. It was well ahead of the state of the art when it was deployed in 2003. Bron Gondwana at Fastmail picked up David’s code, polished off its rough edges and incorporated it into upstream Cyrus. Much respect for Bron and his team and their excellent service.
Web: hosted on chiark.greenend.org.uk which belongs to my friend Ian Jackson. Chiark runs a 32-year-old Debian installation. Static site generator written by me in Rust.
I chose these for their old and outdated appearance, which I take as an indicator for stability and the unlikelihood of bothersome changes. So far so good, though it’s only been a year.
Registrar and DNS: Namecheap VPS: Vultr Services: A couple small websites, Nextcloud, Gitea Email: Fastmail (and an old gmail account that’s mostly spam and some rather important emails to people who think they have my first initial + last name @gmail.com, but actually don’t [1]).
I self-host stuff on an old mac mini and an rpi downstairs, and use Cloudflared (aka Cloudflare Tunnels fka Argo Tunnels) to access them.
[1] The most interesting email I’ve gotten so far is the proposed budget for the national government of the Federated States of Micronesia, which was supposed to go to an elected official who shares my first name + last initial.
To keep things skimmable.
So prefacing with. Bought a (old) house this year, with a bunch of unexpected issues, prepping for our first kid (due in Feb), plus a bunch of miscellaneous issues from the acquisition, I’ve had very little free time over the last 8 months or so. As such pretty much everything below has some type of TODO associated with it.
1: Will likely move to either GANDI or porkbun later, but Namecheap is not bad.
2: Also fine. Will use tailscale + a protonbridge on my NAS for IMAP in future as I don’t love their mobile client. 3. Pricey for what it is. I’m looking for decent provider where I can run a Nixos machine (without going the infect route). Suggestions welcome.
4. RSS feed reader; not in use. I need to rework my feeds. I made the mistake of subscribing to high volume feeds because I liked there content. Need to rework to be sites I actually care about.
5: Not in use. For a while I was an advocate for self-hosting OSS. The centralization of Github rubbed me the wrong way. Then my previous VPS provider suffered a RAID failure in such that fried the entire server, resulting in me losing several projects. Will likely keep to mirror at the very least.
Domain and DNS: Cloudflare because they’re cheap and I trust them. (I know not everyone does.)
My mail is self-hosted on a local VPS provider (https://mnx.io) that I’ve had for around a decade. I keep thinking of moving off to something else, but It’s cheap enough ($5/mo) to not bother and I’m worried about moving into an IP space that is (or was once) known for spam by the blocklists. My current IP shows up as 100% spam-free on every online check I can find. I host multiple mail accounts for myself and my family, and none of the popular email providers can touch $5/mo for several users or I probably would have switched by now.
My blog is hosted by Cloudflare pages and my other web apps are running on OCI free tier instances on a pay-as-you-go plan with a monthly invoice of $0.
Domains: OVH
Server: OVH + some services on Synology running locally
Email: Gmail for family emails + testing self-hosted (Stalwart) for my “online-identity” email
Blog: Netlify, but I am thinking about bringing it on my own machine
DNS: OVH + FreeDNS 42
https://openbsd.amsterdam/
Hetzner has really grown on me now that they have a couple of US datacenters. I don’t host my own source control, though… I use sr.ht for that.
I’ve seen a lot of good things in this thread about Hetzner, but their TrustPilot reviews are awful. Full of people having their accounts cancelled with no notice or explanation and no response from the support channels. Have you interacted with their support at all?
My only interaction with their support was a billing question. They answered it within 24 hours. I’m not sure how representative I’d want to consider it, though, as I only needed them to explain something confusing in their control panel, and didn’t need them to take any real action.
I’ve been using them for about a year for VPSes that are truly cattle, not pets. They’ve just worked. I’m sure I’m very much their happy path. I use ubuntu LTS and docker. If something goes wrong with one, I spin up a new one, restore my database backup and push my images to it. A system that costs 7 Euro with them performs better than one that costs me 18 USD at digital ocean.
I’m not really familiar with TrustPilot, so I don’t know quite how to weigh the negative reviews there. With the caveat that I’ve only used Hetzner for things where I’m a quick zone edit (and DNS TTL) away from moving it to another VPS, which really caps my exposure to any badness from them, I’ve been happy for the past 13 months.
I haven’t, but I’ve heard of enough problems (from randos on the web) that I wouldn’t let them host anything really important. i like them for my unimportant stuff because they’re very cheap and have excellent online tools for controlling their services - I don’t know any other places that combine those two things so well.
Registrar: TransIP
DNS hosting: Cloudflare
VPS host: Hetzner + some local compute
Email: nixos mailserver (while big providers don’t block my stuff, otherwise I need to start looking and solving things again) Backup email account on Gmail
Services: mailserver, website, irc bouncer, tt-rss and than a bunch of infra things I wanna play with (Prometheus, Grafana, uptime monitoring, …)
I have two domains registered through Namecheap, with whom I have no complaints in particular. Both of them point to a VPS hosted by Tornado VPS (née prgmr), which hosts:
My email is through Gmail, but I would like to set up a simple self-hosted mail server at some point to reduce my dependency on Google. Getting sent mail to work sounds hard, so I will probably save myself some effort by only using it to receive mail. Almost no business that sends me mail expects me to email back.
The service I will actually set up next will probably be using my domain to get proper TLS on a Jellyfin instance that will only be exposed on LAN and VPN.
As a mailbox.org user, I’m curious why you decided to move to TransIP. Mind sharing? I found the low prices, eco-concious priorities, and Germany hosting attractive. The price increases felt pretty steep for me though because I don’t use most of the bundled services.
I’m actually fairly happy with Mailbox.org for much of the same reasons as you. It’s just that my contract is due for renewal soon and I’m taking the moment to consolidate a few things at TransIP, another provider I’ve been happy with for over a decade now (+ it’s local to me).
I just sat down to explore the email offer from TransIP more thoroughly, but it’s not up to par with Mailbox.org. Sure, the interface is more slick whilst that of Mailbox.org feels a little clunky. With TransIP, I was unable to have several domains under 1 email account (except for purchasing multiple 5EUR/month packages). Mailbox.org makes that easy and I only have to deal with their interface once a year, so I just paid for another 2 years of Mailbox.org!
Mail: Fastmail, Protonmail
Domain: Gandi
Server: Hetzner dedicated
https://openbsd.amsterdam/ and https://namecheap.com/
Edit: I also have a https://www.kimsufi.com/en/dedicated-servers/ $5.99/month dedicated server for backups.
Mythic Beasts because they met my needs, are techie friendly, and have good docs.
Mail: migadu. Paid. Excellent service!
Dns: desec.io (free) excellent service!
Server: Hetzner (paid)
I use Dreamhost for everything. Been using them since forever, and they’ve been been good enough to not bother researching alternatives. I had one domain registered at enom that I just recently moved to Dreamhost.
Same, since maybe 2000. The only issue I had (other than that one time they fucked up billing for everyone) was a slowdown when novehiclesinthepark was on HN. So maybe don’t host your big time thing on cheap shared hosting. But for everything smaller, it’s great.
I did use Digital Ocean for Semantle, mainly because I wanted convenient WSGI. That turned out to be wise, because upgrading was really easy when I needed a bigger server.
This is my story too. My Dreamhost account dates back to 2002. I use it mainly for forwarding email from my vanity domain to Gmail, and to give hosting space to a few friends for their own websites.
Domains name cheap (including their dns service)
VPS Linode
Which Hosts web server, email (exim), ssh, irc, other bits and pieces
Mail reputation is a problem for us. I’m looking at options to stop self hosting.
I use Infomaniak for mail and domain hosting. Have only been using them for a year, but am happy so far.
Regarding excellent support, I can vouch for migadu, who provided amazing support during the years I‘ve been with them.
I work with inleed.se for most of my hosting, and also get the domains through them. I can’t recommend their services enough. The only exception is the one domain and website that I (also) use in a professional quality. I work with Mythic Beasts for that because, uh, Inleed is a Swedish company and neither I nor the accountant I work with speak a single word of Swedish. If the powers that be require some new piece of paperwork from me (not an entirely infrequent occurrence) or need some specific incantation on an English-language invoice or whatever, I wouldn’t exactly know where to start. The fine folks at Mythic Beasts speak
HerHis Majesty’s language and that gets a little further around here. They, too, are top notch.The service palette is pretty boring: VPS-es I run for development, static HTML hosting and email, and at some point a Gemini and a Gopher server because I was bored.
For personal email hosting I use StartMail.
I was with them way back before they got bought. The subsequent (and current) ownership is supposed to be a little shady but if they’re trying to use the data they can get from my emails to sell me stuff, boy are they going to be disappointed. All my impulse purchases are fueled by Instagram and tequila. Checkmate email salespeople.Nope, see @wbolster’s note below, I completely misremembered that. I don’t think there’s much to say on this topic other than that I’m really happy about their services. (That being said, my impulse purchases are still fueled by Instagram and tequila.)I try not to depend on too many online-only services, I just really hate dealing with that sort of infrastructure. Things like feed readers, bookmark/password managers, email clients and so on are things that I just want to configure once and never touch again. If I have to do maintenance on them, that’s work, and I already do enough of that.
So e.g. I use a bookmark manager I wrote myself and just sync the database between my machines with Syncthing. The chances of me bookmarking two things on two machines simultaneously are low enough that I don’t even care if I’ll have to ever roll back a database file. Same thing with passwords, I use a local password manager and sync the database between machines. It required a grand total of three minutes to set up and no maintenance ever. I think that’s an order of magnitude less than I’ve spent just yelling at Docker in the last ten years, let alone trying to fix its crap.
hi, thanks for mentioning startmail! (i work there.)
small correction: startmail did not get bought. startmail has the same founders as startpage (which did get bought), but it is a separate company and operates independently. system1/privacy one group did not invest in, and does not own startmail.
to be absolutely clear: startmail does not sell your data, does not read your mail, and does not serve you ads. see the (very strict) privacy policy for the nitty-gritty details.
Oh, hey! It was easy to mention StartMail, I’m super happy about what you people do!
I apologise for being so hand-wavy about the Privacy One/System1 thing. The whole debacle was so long ago that I completely forgot StartMail wasn’t actually involved in that (I’ll edit my comment with a note about it shortly). And as far as I know, everything you said about StartMail data access standards is true, and personally I don’t doubt it.
Why the handwaviness – that may actually be relevant to the current topic to some degree: for a long time after the StartPage - System1 deal, every time I said I was on StartMail someone had to point out that well actually System1 is an advertising company just like Google and you can’t trust their affiliates on whether they read your data or not. In addition to that being completely unverifiable in the first place, I also didn’t care about it that much. If I actually wanted my email hidden from commercial enterprises, I’d just self-host it. The things I like the most about it (and continue to get, thanks to your amazing work!) are practically no spam, easy device management, good email client support (I went back to
muttat one point, I usegit-send-emailand so on, so not having to jump through hoops to talk to IMAP and SMTP servers is important to me), and actual customer support as opposed to automated cold shoulders.So at some point I just defaulted to adding an “I really don’t care if anyone at System1 is mining my emails” disclaimer to anything I say. Not because I think they are, it just lets me nip “well ackshually” replies in the bud.
Registrars: Joker, ISNIC, NUNAMES, 123-reg
Hosting: Kimsufi, Hetzner, Scaleway
Most everything is self-hosted (email, dns, web, etc.) except for some historical stuff and forks on various repo hosts, backups on borgbase, storage on S3 + B2, status page on netlify, media on YouTube and Soundcloud and Bandcamp.
If that makes sense.
meta: Isn’t there some sort of security risk in mentioning all the providers one uses for hosting, email etc?
Just feels like it gives an attacker much more useful information for e.g. phishing attacks, impersonation attacks, etc. etc.
not really. most of that information is (by technical necessity) public information that is (in)directly available from public dns and whois. for example, dns mx records tell where email should go, and that usually (in)directly refers to the e-mail provider’s mail servers.
Registrar: a mix of Namecheap and Crazy Domains DNS: Digital Ocean Email: Zoho
Domain: nearlyfreespeech.net
Hosting: tornadovps.com (formerly prgmr.com)
Mail: mxroute.com lifetime plan
My original domain is registered via Gandi, and the new one (for personal use) directly with the entity in charge of it (ISNIC).
I run my own DNS, webserver, calendar, git repo and email with it. For that I use the toolset from openbsd base (https, relayed, opensmtpd, unbound/nsd), and it works great ! All the hosting is done at hetzner.com, because it’s cheap. Except one last server running at scaleway that I need to move because their services are awful nowadays.
I also have a server running in the corner to host my scavenger hunt: cyb.farm (registered with Pork bun).
I also host a family XMPP server using Prosody.
And some self written services, non open source stuff.
I am on Google Workspace. For a long time it was great because of “free forever” plan, but eventually they removed it for everyone. I am considering moving my mail to iCloud since I am already paying for it and they seem to support custom domains. I am trying to understand repercussions of changing mail provider and moving away from Google when I used “Sign in with Google” a ton.
Has anyone else successfully transitioned from GMail to iCloud?
I’m curious about this too. I’m on Google’s $6/month plan (which they’re raising to $7.20 soon unless I choose the annual billing option). I’d like to use the opportunity to switch to a different provider (perhaps Fastmail to support a smaller company and avoid a single point of failure?), but I don’t want to lose any inbound emails in the meantime or make my outgoing emails end up in spam because of a switch with SPF/DKIM/DMARC.
Edit: Just made the switch (thanks to this thread for the push!) and it went as smoothly as I could imagine. I had a DNS TTL of 300 seconds, so that gave me just long enough to put in the new MX record after deleting the old one to avoid losing any inbound mail. My outbound mail deliverability seems unaffected but I won’t know for sure until I’ve sent some more emails.
Thanks for the update and the tip about shorter DNS TTL. Did you switch to Fastmail?
Yeah. They have a really nice import tool that can grab your mail directly from Google (over IMAP I think). That probably works differently with iCloud but I’m guessing they have something equivalent.
pobox.com -> fastmail
hetzner vms for public and a rasberry cluster under my desk for things running behind on tail scale.
I’m using CloudFlare to forward my emails to my personal gmail account, works really well! Previously I used forwardemail.net, but they blocked my accountant’s email (spam subnet or something), so I’ve switched…
The registrar doesn’t matter much, I’ve used godaddy and namecheap without issues but all DNS is CloudFlare anyway…
Registrar: INWX (not the cheapest, but pretty descent, they have tons of TLDs, I’m also moving away from Gandi, same reason as many of you)
Email: Proton (default domain) and Mailbox.org (additional domains, and I like their webdav services, which I use to sync Joplin notes, all encrypted and tasks.org Todo List)
VPS: Hetzner
I have a few VPSes on places from lowendbox, as well as a couple of digitalocean ones
Registrar: EasyDNS imbas.ca: Email is Google for domains (or whatever it’s called these days), personal use (so still free) vhodges.dev: Migadu (20USD/Year). I don’t really use this very much though (grand plans to blog etc)
I have something hosted at Linode and some stuff running on Fly.io. I also have a site hosted at Netlify.
Migadu.
DNS: Mostly namecheap, but I’m flexible for registration. Route53 for DNS itself
Hosting: Static sites on S3 + Cloudfront. Dynamic sites… I don’t have any
Mail: Fastmail
For quite some time, I’ve been using Namecheap as my registrar, but recently switched to Porkbun. Cheaper, funnier and heard OK things about it on the internet. For DNS I use Cloudflare (mostly for easy DNS challenge from within all tools) and for hosting I use Hetzner.
EDIT: Yeah, and I went from posteo.de to migadu.com with e-mail, recently.
Porkbun supports less tlds than Namecheap! :( I would have switched!
I bet it does… It didn’t affect my switch, so I just went for it
I had some VPS instances on Digital Ocean in between but didn’t have bandwidth to maintain them.
Registrar was Google Domains, i guess now it’s Squarespace? I dunno
Mail is Fastmail. ❤️ worth every penny.
Because Freedoms ip’s are often blocked by hotmail (not business outlook servers), in my smtpd.conf a reroute via a VPS at another location:
match auth from any for domain { hotmail.com, live.nl } action "outboundviavps"Domain is NameCheap, DNS is Vultr (along with some incidental services), main website is Netlify, and email is Fastmail. I might swap out Vultr if I were starting from scratch today.
At one point, I used Basehost, but sadly they’re offline now. They were a hosting company based in Kosovo, which has some interesting political and technological consequences. I was not using their services for anything shady, but they were quite frank about willing to host content likely to be taken down with DMCA requests, because they ignored them. I’ll let their copy speak for them…
Registrar: Cloudflare
DNS: Cloudflare
Email: Fastmail
Website: Vultr
Various other services (e.g. Plex, etc.): computer sitting in my closet with a dire cooling situation that I really need to fix so it stops hitting 90C if the AmazonBasics fan falls over again
Authentication: Custom auth server on Cloudflare Workers https://github.com/piperswe/basicauth with Cloudflare Access
You could give Authelia a try if you are keen on MFA!
Disclaimer: Not related to the project but just a happy user.
Registrar: Namecheap
DNS: dns.he.net (hurricane electric)
hosting: Debian servers in my bedroom (all Dell Wyse 5070)
Email: Fastmail
Haven’t seen any mention yet of runbox, which handles email quite well, including for private domains. I’ve been using them for years. My registrar is Gandi, and I have sites or apps hosted on Linode (which is part of akamai now) and on RimuHosting.
Registrar: Namecheap DNS: Cloudflare
Email is self-hosted inbound. NixOS + postfix + dovecot2. Outbound is relayed via Mailgun. I’m not thrilled about using a marketing email relay but it hasn’t seemed to have caused any issues.
Web is varied. Some things are running in a 2 node DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster. Most things are static sites on S3 + Cloudfront. A few things are still on Netlify.
Register: dondominio.com Blog: gitlab Personal web: my one slimbook, ubuntu nginx flask, only for knowledge Email: protonmail security and banks, gmail public, more than 8 counts, for work, personal, forum,..
Registrar: Namecheap, OVH
VPS provider: Linode. I run a WG VPN server, an RSS reader, a Ghost blog for my wife and couple of personal applications that I wrote for personal use.
Email: I had couple of email domains running with mox, but I would like to migrate them to something less minimal
I noticed a lot of people here are using porkbun. I wonder why!
Google Workspace.
Need to boot the domain off of the FKA Google Domains and put it in a stable home.
Used to be google only, now I use cloudflare + gsuite (edit: also sometimes namecheap for the DNS, but been moving to cloudflare recently)
Njalla + Netlify + Migadu
Had a bad taste in my mouth after gandi’s weird “version” change, porkbun is nice and I do use it for a domain tld which cloudflare currently doesn’t support but I’ve enjoyed cloudflare by themselves. Never had any serious issues.
Porkbun + Migadu
Porkbun isn’t the best, but domains are a scummy enough business that it’s good enough for me.
As for mail: I’m using Migadu, and, while I’d definitely recommend it, I think I would’ve just gone with disroot.org’s custom domain feature if I had known about it at the time.
Registrar: DNSimple DNS: DNSimple, Fastmail Email: Fastmail VPS: Hetzner, Luxvps
I’m running a few Ruby on Rails applications (deployed with Kamal) and one instance of Gitea on these min-spec VPS’s.
I host with a small, local web hosting company where I know the owner (and I used to work there years ago). I use Dotster as my registrar and I don’t have any complaints. I also host my own email (have been for over 20 years), web (ditto), DNS [1], gopher (eight years now?) and Gemini (a few years [2]).
[1] The name servers on record with the registrar slave off my DNS server (and only those servers are allowed to talk to DNS). It works quite well.
[2] My gemini server was the first Gemini server.
Registrar: Was Google Domains but now migrated to Cloudflare.
DNS: Also Cloudflare.
Mail: Fastmail.
Hosting: GitHub Pages for static stuff, OVH for my Linux ISOs, Vercel for some React “applications”.
I’m currently using loup-vaillant.fr and monocypher.org, both registered by GANDI. I also rent a VM there to host both websites. I used to run my own mail server on a VM (and I may go back to that if I gather the courage to set it up once more), but right now I’m using GANDI’s offering (now paid, but given the convenience that’s only fair).
Netherlands focused:
If anybody knows anything much better than this, I’d love to hear it.
Google. And I hates it, precious. It’s so much money if you only have a couple of accounts. I want to move, probably to Proton, but that’s such a huge pain I keep putting it off. Definitely not until after we move in meatspace early next year, anyway :)
All of my personal domains are on Namecheap. The business-ish other domains are on a separate Namecheap account for separation purposes.
Email is hosted exclusively on Vultr. I’ve been using them since Centarra closed in 2014; their support has been phenomenal, and the network performance has been great. Most of my other services are also on Vultr, but I put GitLab on Linode since they had a better price for “memory heavy, disk medium” than Vultr, at least in 2020 when I moved off Hetzner.
The simple domains have their DNS hosted in Namecheap. The complex domains are on AWS Route 53. I’d love to move to something less… Amazon, but it’s cheap and I’d lose some feature moving to any other service I’d trust. And as a note, “service I trust” does not include Cloudflare. I really like having the ability to automate creation of records for DNS-based ACME, and using geo-routing for various things, and especially how it can change records based on whether an IP is responding to specific traffic or not.
Registrar: Google Domains at last renewal… guess Namecheap now.
DNS: Google Cloud DNS. The security around Google Accounts is a separating factor for me.
Mail: Proton’s bring-your-own-domain service has worked well enough for me.
Hosting: srht.site, as of today amusingly.
DNS and Compute stuff: Hetzner
Mail: Fastmail
Registrar: The now defunct Google Domains. Will move to Namecheap.
The compute stuff is a Nomad cluster.
I’ve used Fastmail for both email and calendar for a few years, and I’ve been totally happy with them. No plans to change. I’ve also used Namecheap for my registrar for years, and have also been happy with them.
I don’t have a personal website, but if I did, it would be on Netlify because I’ve been happy with them too on a few different projects!
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I also have a Zimablade sitting by my router hosting my HomeAssistant, Jellyfin, UptimeKuma and a few miscellaneous services. At some point I really should consolidate, but I ended up spreading out to different services that best fit my usecase at that particular time. Hetzner I liked, but they didn’t have any US options when I was using them, and the latency for game servers was untenable in the US.
Mail/calendar/address book is @ Posteo since I don’t trust my uptime. Personal static site/weblog currently on SourceHut Pages with the an Albanian TLD (@ host.al) for aesthetics. The rest is on a mini PC on a UPS for outages in my living room using a locally-registered Thai TLD (@ thnic.co.th) (which has XMPP, Mumble, feed aggregator, barebones darcs/Git mirrors, & a remote builder/substitutor for Nix (running the same architecture as my laptop for compatibility & sharing opitmized builds)). DNS is @ deSEC.
I have to say, I’m since years very satisfied with the product quality, as well as the support that Hetzner offers.
For the VPS, I have two. One that has a web server (nginx) running and serving some smaller web content. Another VPS that has a Docker engine running where I have a container with a postfix serving as a smarthost, and I also have a separate sub-network inside that Docker environment with some Docker containers attached to it that is an extension to my home network via WireGuard. One of the containers in that sub-network serves as WireGuard gateway between my home network and that sub-network.
Hosting my personal email as well as an email service for friends and a few acquaintances / small businesses for over 20 years now.
I’m using FreeBSD (with OpenSMTPD) as a special relay server for some Wordpress sites, which pre-authenticates SMTP connections and only allows specific recipients.
For webmail I’m currently using Roundcube, but that may change.