I’ll go first with an example below.
What are y’all opinions as to what to self-host (on a computer, instance, or local computer) vs what is better to pay for through subscription or purchase?
The goal is to increase
- privacy from databrokers, ad brokers, corporate overlords, and from family and friends.
- security from threats below targeted nation state attacks, below zero-day vulns.
Example:
Self-host your calendar, contacts, and tasks Subscribe to email via protonmail to avoid all the issues with self-hosting mail servers
I do as you, and run my own services for everything I use frequently except for email. keeping it all behind a vpn prevents unwanted access. I pay for protonmail but operate my own mail server for internal use. I have machinery to download messages from protonmail upon receipt and make them available to me, and to send through protonmail. so I’m doing both and using protonmail as the interface with outside servers.