@Hyolobrika
I'd use this myself, but their scripts seem to rely on systemd and if I go for a VPS, it'd probably be a BSD of some sort or Alpine, so I probably would have to make some of these things manually in order to make it work.

@Hyolobrika @m0xee I have been using my own domain with generic commodity (CPanel/WHM shared hosting, don't even care to name the host since they're all going to be the same and charge around the same) for around 90% of my incoming e-mail for about the last 5 years with little issue; occasionally you'll get some places (AliExpress, certain banks) that raise a fuss about e-mail hosts not on their whitelist, but overall it's been great

@Hyolobrika @m0xee I have been teling myself “I'm going to migrate this over to self hosted some day” for 3 of those 5 years... the upside to doing it off your own domain is that you don't have to go updating all the places/people you gave your e-mail to when you eventually move the backend over; the downside is there's no sense of urgency forcing you to actually go through with the move

@liam @Hyolobrika
Exactly! I'm using Proton with my own custom domain and I'm still reluctant whether to make the plunge and switch to self-hosting it😅
On the one hand, I really want to use just basic SMTP and IMAP instead of relying on proton-bridge/hydroxide, this would also allow me to use this email address with DeltaChat.

@liam @Hyolobrika
On the other, it just works™, it doesn't cost too much, considering that I also use their VPN services, and Proton is a trustworthy company in my book.
I agree, when switching is optional, it kinda demotivates.