You… you shut up. 🥲
Oh this one cuts.
On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!
Out of curiosity; who is providing the mail service? Or are you self-hosting? Trying to organise mine, hoping I can get it done maybe 19 years quicker.
I use Hover. They’re based in Canada and I’ve been using them for years for my business domain and email. Was an easy choice for personal too. Every time I’ve had to call the tech support they have fixed the problem super fast, did extra stuff, and were super lovely. $20 a year for a small mailbox each, which is more than enough for us.
I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy
It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email [email protected]
It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.
I just set my domain email up with Zoho. Was easy enough and they have a free option. Although I pay $1.25/mo per user for two users, just to get a little extra storage space and be able to use SMTP and ActiveSync to send email from my servers for notifications and use a different mobile app than their default one.
Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away…
That’s what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:
I use wildcards for some stuff, but I mostly just use [email protected] and have my real email for friends and family private. It’s not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway. Everything is iMessage or SMS.
It’s not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway.
I’ll send you an email. $12
Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.
I do the same thing, but with gmail tags.
Now if I get a spam email to that address I’ll know exactly what to block.
I am amazed at how often that gets considered an invalid email.
Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?
PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It’s like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that’s it.
You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that’s always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.
The good thing about using your own domain is that you’re not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.
This is a good idea. I got free domain routing to Gmail through the plagued Google apps system years ago. It’s changed a bunch of times and is now workspaces and requires a monthly fee. I’m grandfathered in through original apps enrollment.
It’s like $10 per year.
Okay, but now you’re talking about $22/year and who even has that kind of money?
Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host
Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address
Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname
Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users
If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.
More like “Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it’s only $12. I’ll cancel next year.” (It’s been 5 years.)
CatBagz.com is in this photograph and I don’t like it.
What, no one really wants to purchase cat faced bags from a guy on the internet that doesn’t like cats all that much and doesn’t use bags all that much and can’t social media and mostly just wants to stop being a fucking company shill but no I’m so fucking good at it that’s my job and my life forever.
Fuck you, dreams. I’m taking cat bags to my fucking grave.
At least my red bubble stickers sell.
Oh this one’s topical. I forgot I made it.
This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It’s inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet
Is this the sticker of a hobby that you want to be part of?
MY FUCKING WEBSITE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE CAT BAGS FOR SALE WHAT WAS I THINKING?
You know what’s worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.
What happened?
I’m gonna guess search engine down ranking.
Nice work man. Fuck the internet and its dark ass wizards.
whole-ass milk
Whole ass-milk
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I like to think that glass is half-ass full.
Nooo, one day I’ll have the time to build my writing utensil repair business.
And then I’ll need the domain penisbroken.comJust buy it for ten years. You’re ultimately saving money and it’ll give you more time to incubate your dream!
lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!
Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff
I have an HP mini PC behind the router, noip.com, no money spent
I used noip.com for like 30 or 60 days. Then I got really annoyed at having to renew the DDNS every 30 days. After switching to duckdns.org I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s completely free and you don’t have to renew anything manually. You obliviously still need to have a script running to update the DDNS though, otherwise it wouldn’t be very dynamic would it.
My mail lived on an Intel atom based mini itx machine for years. I wanted to play with breakup by replication and bought a cheap shell. Now the cheap shell is my only mail server
no money spent
Well… electricity.
Yes, of course, but that mini PC uses 15 watts maximum. My main PC uses way more that that
Same with the HP mini PC. But I have a $12/yr dotcom domain and a script on my server updates the DNS record anytime the IP changes.
My router can update the IP on its own if you configure properly
I recommend cloudflare WARP
How much are you selling for?
Selling? I host things for myself, not others. Except my Lemmy instance I suppose, that’s public.
This is the way. I would be lost without a domain. Even mail is selfhosted with my domain. But I only use subdomains, the real domain is abandoned.
See email is one of the few things I don’t host. I host a webmail frontend, and use my domain. But PurelyMail is an amazing service that’s so cheap it’s basically free at personal scale with very few limits. I didn’t really care to try and deal with having all my mail sent to spam.
I just use stalwart - mail, it’s just one docker container, has bleeding edge functions like jmap and there is no need of deeper knowledge. I refer my domain on the settings and got a list of all needed dns-records.
It takes 2-4 days to get SSL and dmarc answers from the big mail-players and if there is nothing wrong with your IP or your records then there is no mail going into spam of someone else.
Been with purely mail for about a year and it’s been great!
Pay $12, can’t let some other jerk have my dream.
Just buy it for ten years. You’re ultimately saving money and it’ll give you more time to incubate your dream!
Don’t worry, the dream lives on!
VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!
I’d be tempted to buy that. When you visit it’s just a white page with a leather couch in the middle of the screen, everytime you click the couch it would moan seductively and every fifth click would give a squelch sound.
The domain was always for me to archive the things I enjoyed.
