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Self-hosting Email: Good Idea or Terrible? 🤔

I've had a tab for this 2014 Ars Technica article open for ages, let me collect the series here:

  1. How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain, part 1
  2. Taking e-mail back, part 2: Arming your server with Postfix and Dovecot
  3. Taking e-mail back, part 3: Fortifying …

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Roll Your Own Drag-and-Drop File Sharing Service

I use, but don't really like, CloudApp to share files (mostly images). The desired solution is:

  1. Drag a file to an icon or something
  2. The file is uploaded somewhere that it can be linked to via URL (ideally at a domain I control)
  3. The URL goes on my clipboard and I can easily share it

If you pay for CloudApp, it does work with your own domain... but I kind of dislike having a third-party service for this at all.

The link above is to an old article from 2012, so there are almost certainly better solutions for self-hosting a file-linking thingamabob, but I'm bookmarking this as a start.