Just joined a couple of days ago so only fair to sum up the things I host myself.
I have 2 locations I host my personal stuff.
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Datacenter:
- Websites
- DNS servers
- Lemmy
- Friendica
- Mail servers
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Home:
- Home Assistant
- Frigate
- Jellyfin (incl Sonarr, Radarr etc)
- Immich
- Fileserver
- Nextcloud
In the Datacenter I still run a VMware ESXi server that needs to be replaced (this winter) and at home I have a Truenas server and 4 Proxmox nodes cluster.
They don’t have to cost money. The mail filter appliances are all based on postfix, spamassassin and a virus scanner like clamav. The thing you pay for is the nice gui.
If only that were true.
It is, I looked at several vendor’s and it’s all te same except for the nice gui. They all have their own blacklist that they feed with the spam/ham queries from their devices.
I genuinely don’t understand what you are paying for. I must have missed something.