Re: Nice to See an Article About This
I suppose some people think that running a server is rocket science.
It isn't.
I've been doing it since 2001/2002, and most of it with hand-me-down second-hand equipment. First mail server was a Dual Pentium PRO with 3 2GB SCSI HDDs running Slackware and using sendmail. Later we had an IBM Netfinity rackmount server with a PIII 550MHz CPU and 5 SCSI HDDs between 18GB and 72GB.
In 2010 that was retired for a little Intel Atom box that's been running my site ever since. Mail stack these days is Postfix and Dovecot on Gentoo Linux.
The important bit: make sure your server doesn't unwittingly relay spam. Dealing with the rest is not complex or expensive, and until only last week, the only on-going costs needed were for an Internet connection and power, I've only recently bought a domain to replace the freebie one I was using from yi.org.
Set it up right, and it's as hands-off experience as you'd be used to from the likes of Gmail and Yahoo. Better in fact, since you're in control of your own destiny.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
