I don't need another, but it's still kind of tempting...
€3.35 / month
2 vCPU Cores
4 GB RAM
50 GB NVMe or 100 GB SSD
That will do for any personal need.
contabo.

@gemlog
Does it come with a dedicated IPv4 address?🤔
Maybe it's time to ditch Proton and self-host my e-mail?

@m0xee Of course. Maybe an ipv6 one too, but dedicated ipv4 for sure.
Do it alongside proton. Have two emails.
Well, given that it's your server, you'd have a possible thousands of email addresses ;-)

@gemlog
Yep, sure, I'm keeping my addresses on Proton domains — protonmail.ch and others, but I'm thinking of switching to self-hosting for my own ones: m0xEE.Net .Org and .Com
I'll look into Contabo, thank you!

@m0xee For the past couple of years (2 I think?), I haven't even been configuring my own postfix, for which I have *extensive* notes for each time. Instead, I've been using yunohost to do it for me and it's very painless.

@gemlog
Did you ever try DeltaChat — the thing that adds an IM-like interface to e-mail?
They have developed a set of scripts to help people self-host e-mail serviced compatible with it: https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail
They expect the distro of your VPS to be systemd-based so I probably won't be able to use it as is, but essentially, they are just deploying dovecot and postfix and I intend to do something similar.

@m0xee I haven't tried it - not sure who I'd have to play with frankly. The default install of debian with yunohost is dovecot/postfix/systemd. It's just a script you use on a new box. Then it whinges until you get all your dns/dkim ducks in a row, which is nice. Takes less than about 45 minutes to have a click and drool secured server.

@gemlog
Sounds nice! I'll check it out too — thanks again!

@m0xee You're welcome! Did you work today? We have snow now - just in time for harvest, which just makes the trees heavy to drag and difficult to bundle. I'll be starting in an hour or so. It's still morning my time.

@gemlog
Nah! I'm currently unemployed and living in the city I don't have to go out much — unless I do it on my own volition. It's only raining here — it did snow a couple of times, but it fails to stick yet. This type of weather: neither raining, nor snowing, nor clear — botches my sleep schedule and I'm in this permanent state of half-asleep half-awake — not great, but I'll be fine.
Good luck with your routine!

@m0xee I meant to ask, if you do leave, which countries are you most interested in?

@gemlog
Depend on where I would be able to secure a job — beggars can't be choosers😅
For me getting a job I would be comfortable with is more important than… location.
Originally I was aiming for Poland — culturally not too different, but now I doubt it would be possible, or in the foreseeable future, I don't expect everyone to be hostile, but it's still hard to avoid being prejudiced, especially for Poles. Same goes for Baltic states I think…
So Western Europe most probably 🤷